From: duwe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Duwe (Emacs))
Subject: Re: FAQ: Yes, the Dimond Stealth works in 1024x768 
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:20:38 GMT

badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:

>>   My Diamond Stealth works fine with 640x480x256, but I am unable to
>>   get a higher resolution out of it. 

>>Uhoh, the poor wretch is S***t Out of Luck. 

>>The trick of getting the clock freq. right on Diamond Stealth is by
>>doing some heavy, trade-secret, wizardry that the manufacturer won't
>>talk about. This means that Linux won't support Diamond Sealth.

>It is time to clear up this confusion. The Diamond Stealth works fine
>in 1024x768x256 -- the trick is to run Windows first (in 1024x768). This sets
>the clocks.
Have you ever thought about the people who refuse to install such a s****ing
operating system crook on their hard disk ?

>What we really need is a program that can set the clocks within Linux. I often
>think the reason this hasn't been written is philosophical rather than
>technical.
You're DAMN right.

> Many people have the absurd belief that writing something like
>this would send the wrong message to Diamond that their policies are OK. 
Oh, I feel so absurd ... help !!!

>Diamond's policies are bad, I agree. But I can assure you that they could
>not care less about the very small Linux user base -- refusing to support 
>their cards is NOT going to bring about a change. 
Don't underestimate the number of Linux users ! Especially towards 1.0 the
Linux community will grow significantly. (same for other FreeNIXes like BSD,
of course) Decreasing sales figures and a shrinking market segment - even the
tendency towards it - will catch any good salesman's attention.
Linux was written about recently in the german Magazine "c't" and they're
getting a decent response via their BBS network as far as I can tell.
The commercial "eMedia"-company, which takes care of c't-projects' hard- and
software distribution are now selling 20 SLS disks for DM 99. (they sell
Coherent and Minix as well)

>Telling us "sell your Stealth" is obviously a pretty unrealistic solution.
>Most of us can't afford to sell hardware every thirty seconds when some
>piece of software or another doesn't support it.
You could sell pieces of hardware worth a few hundred bucks every 30 seconds?
Well then you must be buying this stuff in the same quantities and be a rich
man ! Buying a graphics board (save for a whole computer) is always a major
investment for a poor CS student like me -> doesn't happen very often. In
these very few cases of a wrong decision on such an investment it should be
possible to get rid of the card. Sell it to that Windoze Junkie who was going
to buy one anyway -> sold_stealth_boards--;

Don't say this doesn't count - that's this dangerous "People starving in
Africa"/"Rain Forest is vanishing"/ "Environment gets polluted"/...-but-what-
can-I-do-Syndrome.  (Yes, I admit: compared to the above we have a minor
 problem here). If everybody does their share, Diamond will notice.

Sorry to waste bandwidth, 
	Torsten

P. S.: opinions expressed above are my very own, but some people here at
Informatik IV might agree with me.
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