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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!jj From: jj@Germany.EU.net (Jens Uwe Jansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Speedstar Timings and X386 Date: 8 Sep 1992 15:39:56 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <18ihgcINN4av@disaster.Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net Keywords: Speedstar, X386 Hello everybody, I'm new to this group and I hope this Question isn't in the FAQ 'cos I didn't found it while browsing through about 800 articles. I noticed some articles about the Diamond Stealth and the 'boycott' of information from Diamond about the card. My problems are: I'm using a Speedstar Plus Hicolor with 386BSD and X386 but I only get pixel-clocks > 45 MHz apart from the standard 25 and 28 MHz clocks from the standard VGA My monitors specs tell me that it can do 35.5 kHz horizontal- frequency but I'm running it with 37.6 kHz. While I can get a very nice 640x480 mode, it's nealy impossible to get a working 800x600 mode because the picture is sqeezed in width. I think I could get a better view if my monitor could work with higher hor.-freq., but that would mean to buy a new monitor which are about 2000,- DM (~ 1000,- $) I think. If it would be possible to use the HiColor mode , I think the picture would be better. I could use the higher frequencies, because the card has to read two bytes to display one pixel, so the picture becomes unsqeezed. Am I right? I hope there is some help to my problem, if not I think I will add my name to the list of Diamond Curse Thanks in advance Jens- Uwe Jansen <jj@Germany.EU.net>