Diamond Stealth (generic S3) drivers!!

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4 total messages Started by Antony Suter Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:17

#16763

Author: Antony Suter
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:17

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Do you have a video card based on the S3 chipset?
Do you not have drivers for this card that utilise the S3 fully?
I have an answer. For fast getting on with it goto >HERE<.

I bought a Diamond Speedstar VRAM yesterday (yeah i know theyve been
around for a while and new S3 chips are coming out, but i dont need
something that will display something before i even knew i was going
to tell it to!) and downloaded the f1280 drivers because thats what the
FAQ hanted at. Rats! They didnt work. They now do. I have found that the
drivers seem to use a set of frequencys that im not used to, and my cheap
monitor needs 15 minutes to warm up before it will correctly sync to the
800x600 freqs. I guess that this is specific to me, and that more recent,
or more expensive monitors will work correctly.

I could upload the patched drivers somewhere, but im not sure about the
legalities of that or if ill get sued or if the sky will...

Let me know how well the drivers work on YOUR S3 card. Theyll work for
me until beter generic drivers for the S3 come from somewhere.

For usable and FAST display on your S3...

>HERE<

1. Download the file F1280.ZIP from ftp-os2.
2. Uncompress the file (in its own cute directory somewhere).
3. Apply the patch file as described BELOW.
4. Follow the normal installation instructions as found in the archive.
nb. its a good idea to do the install on top of the normal VGA drivers
from the OS/2 disks or Service Pak. I tried it after trying the 8514/A
drivers and guess what? It didnt work. If you DO do this youll have to
copy over your OS2.INI file from \OS2\INSTALL\OS2.INI to fix your system.

BELOW

3.1 Get the following PATCH text into a text file on your OS/2 system,
    say s3patch.txt, in the cute directory.
3.2 Run this:-
	\os2\patch s3patch.txt /a
3.3 You should get about 4 messages saying "patch(s) applyed". Patching
    is complete.

PATCH
--- begin here ---
FILE SVGA.EXE
VER 10AF 7401C3
CHA 10AF 7501C3
VER 10EA 7401C3
CHA 10EA 7501C3
FILE VSVGA.SYS
VER F0C5 7401C3
CHA F0C5 7501C3
VER F140 7401C3
CHA F140 7501C3
FILE F10X8.DLL
VER 12BD2 4F7263686964
CHA 12BD2 44454D41524B
VER 12D98 546563686E6F6C6F6779
CHA 12D98 4F4620494E5445524E41
FILE F8X8.DLL
VER 12BD2 4F7263686964
CHA 12BD2 44454D41524B
VER 12D98 546563686E6F6C6F6779
CHA 12D98 4F4620494E5445524E41

--- end here ---

-- 
Antony Suter			[0] antony@werple.apana.org.au
Melbourne, Australia		[1] s871780@rmit.edu.au
"Call me Jack - stranger things have happened!"

Re: Diamond Stealth (generic S3) drivers!!

#16417

Author: Antony Suter
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:54

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Just a couple more notes.

Ive found out that for my monitor to behave under OS/2 i need to boot
dos and run windows (with the 800x600x256 driver loaded) before booting
OS/2. I guess this could be fixed another way or I could buy a better
monitor.

Also, theres a chance that the patch wont work for you. If it doesnt,
dont panic (HHGTTG :-). They can be patched again! I mean its all just
a question of what string to patch into the *.dll files instead of
"Orchid Technology". SVGA.EXE and VSVGA.SYS are patched a different way.
Its a pity Orchid are a company and not friends to people who dont own
there video cards. We all live in the same world.

-- 
Antony Suter			[0] antony@werple.apana.org.au
Melbourne, Australia		[1] s871780@rmit.edu.au
"Call me Jack - stranger things have happened!"

Re: Diamond Stealth (generic S3) drivers!!

#16740

Author: Larry Salomon Jr.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:17

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I have a Diamond Stealth card, but you mentioned the Diamond Speedstar.  Will
the patch work on the Stealth card, too?  Also, is there any chance of 
damaging my card, should the drivers not work on my machine?

Cheers,
Q
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Re: Diamond Stealth (generic S3) drivers!!

#16676

Author: Don A.B. Lindbergh
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:55

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Good show, nice hack!  A couple of people tried this awhile back, but
couldn't get it to work.  

--Don Lindbergh
dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov

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