>
> Someone just called me from D0 and I forgot to get their phone number:
>
> The Diamond Viper 550 is in the XFree86-SVGA driver in 3.3.3.1.
>
> The info is located at
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
Hi,
As an addendum to this: I mailed XIG Graphics (makers of Accelerated X)
about this the other day. They don't have a driver for this because the
chipset manufacturers won't give them everything they need to know about
the chipset. They don't forsee the situation changing any time soon
without people getting in touch with the chipset manufacturers on their
own account:
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Bryan Chambers wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:47:58 -0700
> From: Bryan Chambers <chambers@xig.com>
> To: Chris Green <greenc@fnal.gov>
> Subject: Re: Support for Diamond Viper 550 16MB?
>
> Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been unable to find specific support for the above card in your
> > updated driver list. Is it covered by any of your existing drivers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Green. HEP, Purdue University. CDF SVXII project.
> > Based at Fermilab. MAIL greenc@fnal.gov; PHONE (630) 840-2308
> Sir,
> I'm sorry, we're unable to provide accelerated support for
> nVidia chipsets because they've not released the necessary
> information to us. Your best bet would be to contact nVidia
> directly and let them know that you would like to use their
> products with ours.
> Sincerely,
> Bryan
>
Cheers,
Chris.
-- Chris Green. HEP, Purdue University. CDF SVXII project. Based at Fermilab. MAIL greenc@fnal.gov; PHONE (630) 840-2308