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From: d88-jwn@jaws.nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: public S3 design (Was: Free software and ... Diamond products)
Keywords: Diamond, free-software, S3, VGA, SVGA
Message-ID: <1992Oct3.145834.11008@kth.se>
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:58:34 GMT
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Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1992Oct3.005854.28888@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
> ...
>I  have a working 8514/A server with modifications for the S3 chipset.

Does this mean you are using X with an S3-card. I'm about to buy a new card
and are therefore very interested in this subject.

I also talked to a person at the company which sells this card. He said the
card came with a driver for Unix. He just read it from some spec and couldn't
specify it any more. I will will come back with more info when (if) I get it.

> ...
>Amancio Hasty
-- 
/Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))