In article <1992Oct22.130844.14651@microware.com>, adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
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>I understand all the anger with Diamond about programming the clock on a
>Speedstar 24X, however:
>
>I have a Speedstar 24 (I understand they weren't available for too long...)
>which can do the 24-bit color mode, but is a ET4000-based board.  Here's
>the question:  Is this board closer to the Speedstar+ or the 24X?  

It's much closer to the SpeedStar +.  The SpeedStar 24 is basically a SpeedStar
plus with the same layout and the same ET4000 with a different RAMDAC capable 
of 24 bit color @ 640*480, plus a different ROM to add a new mode number to 
support this mode.

The SpeedStar 24X is really a completely different card designed around a 
different chip, ie. the Western Digital 90C31 Graphics Engine + frame buffer
+ 24 bit RAMDAC chip.

But I do believe that all the SpeedStars, including the Stealth, do incorporate
the programmable clock synthesizers.  There may be exceptions.  If so, I'm
sure that more than a few people will append posts stating those exceptions. :)




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>
>In other words, will (or does) XFree work with my card?
>-- 

I have no idea.


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>Adam G.
>adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg
>The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial
>statements of Microware, or any Microware employees.