Re: which video card for Linux

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From: David Gibson
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00

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UTS Student at Broadway Campus (nobody@acs.itd.uts.edu.au) wrote:
: I might be buying a Diamond Stealth 64 video card
: does anyone know if Linux has hassles with this card? I've heard
: unconfirmed rumours (from sales reps, so I'm not yet convinced) that
: with the DS64, Linux's max screen resolution is 600 x 800.
: is this real? advice would be appreciated

	XFree86 certainly didn't used to like the DS64, on account of its
non-standard clock chip and RAMDAC. With a newer version of X (3.1.2) my
DS64 (DRAM 2MB) now works as very well under X. ...BUT, there are around 4
or 5 cards called the DS64 which are almost completely different. The DRAM
and VRAM versions have entirely different chipsets - not just different RAM,
plus there are at least two versions of the the DRAM (more like three or
four) with different chipsets. Before you buy the thing, find out exactly
what the graphics accelerator chip, the clockchip and the RAMDAC are.

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From: david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au (David Gibson)
Subject: Re: which video card for Linux
Date: 1996/06/05
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