Re: SICK of DIAMOND products ???? Me to !!!!!

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From: Christopher Blackmon
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00

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In message <DJF7LB.4LH@uns.bris.ac.uk> - des@pact.srf.ac.uk (David Shepherd) 
writes:
:>The problem with Diamond was that they were happy to release info
:>about the setup for their video cards (I don't think it was anything
:>particularily special) but only under NDA. Linux, or more correctly,
:>Xfree release their code under GPL which requires source code hence
:>they could not release driver code for Diamond cards. This lead to
:>the usual response from GPL bigots that Diamond were thus inherently
:>evil as they wanted to "control information" and thus should be
:>boycotted and no-one should try to support their products.
:>


That was a while back... my Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (s3-864) runs
fine under OS/2 and linux... (yes... XFree and all... even
at 1024x768x256)


:>While I have never tried to run Linux/XFree I do know that at the
:>same time as everyone was up in arms about Diamond that the Xfree
:>FAQ did contain a pointer to an independent site were the relevant
:>setujp programs could be found in binary form!
:>


This was only needed with the cards that had a variable dot clock
(like the old s3-928 Diamond Stealth Pro/VLB card)



Christopher Blackmon, N4VGK
ckblackm@nando.net

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From: ckblackm@nando.net (Christopher Blackmon)
Subject: Re: SICK of DIAMOND products ???? Me to !!!!!
Date: 1995/12/12
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