VGA Hell * 2 (Stealth 64 & Phantom 64)

[Scott Merrilees Sm@nc.bhpese.oz.au]

>  Diamond Stealth64 Video 3000 (Formerly known as 64 Video VRAM)
>   - PCI version
>   - S3 Vision968
>   - RAMDAC: IBM 9314 - 220 MHz (is there any equivalent RAMDAC's)
>   - platform is Endeavour with 90Mhz Pentium, no onboard video

I have one of these cards.  My RAMDAC is actually a IBM526 220MHz.  The
526 is buried in the middle of the number.  See the XFree86 doco.
XFree86 uses the IBM526 in IBM524 mode.  I haven`t used the card in any
but 640x480x1, which is currently dodgy as there are lines across the
screen.  I'm still experimenting with my Creative Labs 6xCD.  I
keep having to reboot into linux to get stuff off the CD.  When I
succeed in getting the CD working, the next thing on the list is
looking at the XFree86 stuff to see how the IBM524 works,

Interestingly, when I tar the entire cd into a file on a dos
partition under linux, then reboot under plan9, plan9's tar reads the
tar file ok, however fs/tarfs gives a checksum error on the first
file.

Sm