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I tried to build myself a clock chip
setup-program for the ICS 2595 2e
clock chip, but without success so far.
I had only the info supplied in the
SVGADATA.PMI-file of my OS/2 driver.

So three questions:
1) Has anyone run Linux X11 successfully
   on the SPEA card or another card using
   the same clock chip?
2) Has anyone managed to acquire programming
   info on the chip, but has no time to write
   a driver himself?
3) Has anyone managed to drag exact information
   about the svgadata.pmi-file out of the IBMers?

If You can supply any info on the subject please
mail me an answer or post it!

Thanks a lot...

Chris

See ya... BTW: The NCR works fine now...

Quote:>   I use Linux on a new PCI-machine
>   equipped with a SPEA Mirage P64
>   board. I know the X-server (XS3-864)
>   runs fine with the board as I was
>   able to start X in the accelerated
>   640x480-Mode.

>   I tried to build myself a clock chip
>   setup-program for the ICS 2595 2e
>   clock chip, but without success so far.
>   I had only the info supplied in the
>   SVGADATA.PMI-file of my OS/2 driver.

>   So three questions:
>   1) Has anyone run Linux X11 successfully
>      on the SPEA card or another card using
>      the same clock chip?

after analyzing how the utility-program "v7hfreq" under DOS-Textmode works,
I found 16 different clocks ranging from 28 to 135 MHz. For use under Linux I patched
the ds3-program that programs the clock chip for another S3 board.

This is supposed to be a bad work around in that it requires changing the frequency
proir to starting X, what probably drives the monitor with h.-freqs. beyond limit until the
X-Server gets into graphical mode.

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BTW, I'm very impressed by the performannce of the SPEA/V7 Mirage P64 VL board.
A first xbench-test reports ca. 120000 xstones with my 486/33 CPU (16MB ram).
Especially playing xpilot is great fun now compared to my old ET4000.

If you are interessed in my patch, feel free to contact me.

Bye,