Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:17:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edwin Phillips <flaregun AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Viper test drive?
To: sasbnb AT unx DOT sas DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Tue, 16 Aug 1994 sasbnb AT unx DOT sas DOT com wrote:

> 
> Greetings Hardware Hackers,
> 
> I have an old Boca 1Mb svga card that at the moment does me just as much
> good as my Diamond Viper VLB 2Mb. I would be willing to let someone
> borrow the Viper for 2-3 weeks to monkey with if I had some reasonable
> belief that I would get a driver out of it for DJGPP (and of course, get
> my card back). I also have the complete technical specs on it from
> Weitek (500 pages or so).
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         Brian
> 

	Here's a message I found about Viper cards:


>	From djgpp-bounces AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Thu Mar 10 00:14:48 1994
>	To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
>	Subject: problems with Diamond viper
>
>>I have a friend with a PCI Diamond Viper (P9000) with 2 Megs of VRAM.
>>
>>The built-in VESA driver doesn't seem to work despite the fact that this card
>>has VESA in bios (he tried with no GO32 env var at all, which used to work fine
>>whith a ET4000 and a VESA TSR). The EXE has go32 tacked on the front, version
>>1.11m3. He's in Belgium and I'm in Australia so debugging this is a bit tricky!
>>
>>He's says the programs seems to run but there is nothing on the screen (ie 
>>normal output logging files are produced).
>>
>>Thanks
>>	Michael Snoswell
>
>1) The Viper (at least the VESA LB version I had access to last summer -- 
>   don't know about PCI, though) requires that you load its VESA BIOS
>   TSR. You have to use the utilities coming with it, it is something like:
>
>       VPRMODE VESA
>
>2) If GO32 1.11's built-in VESA driver does not work with it try the 
>   VIPER-specific driver 'viper.grn' included with GRX 1.03. You still
>   need to load the VESA TSR, even if you use this driver.
>
>Csaba Biegl
>csaba AT vuse DOT vanderbilt DOT edu
>

  Good luck!

	Ed

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