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Date: Saturday, August 15, 1992 - 1:11 am

I think you can add a few real mode codes before the kernel is loaded. If
it is true, you just need to know what code is sent to VBIOS to set the
clock.

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H.J.
Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
In article <1992Aug14.174805@hammer.Prime.COM>, cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug14.171832.23483@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
|> > anyone got this to work with X under Linux????
|> 
|> Yes, but not me, I don't have one.
|> 
|> > And also, is it true that the Diamond Stealth card won't work 'cuz
|> > it has that new S3 chip???
|> 
|> Yeup, that's also true.  I do own one of these, but I haven't tried.
|> I've been trying to figure out how Diamond selects the clocks for the
|> different video modes.  No luck yet.  If I have time this weekend, I'll
|> play around with DEBUG under DOS, and try and see what the bleep the VBIOS
|> is doing for mode selection.
|> 
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