External Dotclock Setter Program for Diamond boards

This is a package for an external clock setting program to be used by the XFree86 Xservers. It is an adapted version of the freq program and should only be used on Diamond graphics cards. There is another WWW page by Trent Lipscomb on the net.

*Note that S3-based cards don't require this program to run, use the Clocks "icd2061a". [Thanks to niemidc at clark.net (David C. Niemi) for this info.]*

Dclkprog is available here or at sunsite. If you have trouble compiling freq then get a copy of the executable.

You should read the following files in the given order:

README.1st - this file in plain text.
README - original README for the freq program.
S32.howto - a HOWTO on for the Diamond Stealth 32, it could also apply to most Diamond boards.
README.clkprog - about using an external clock setting program.

There are sample configs for XFree-2.1.1 and 3.1+ servers: Xconfig.S32, XF86Config.S32

Potential problems include the 'pixel dust' problem where the cursor leaves a trail of pixels (usually black or white) which can be removed by refreshing the window (say, by iconising and deiconising). NEW! I've received a program, pixelfix.c, from Paul English <tallpaul at palantir.res.wpi.edu> which may banish those mouse droppings.

There doesn't seem to be a solution to this problem. I've only seen it once on my system, but it promptly vanished as I was fiddling around with the video timings, etc.

Created 6th June 1995, updated 22nd April 1996 by Peter Chang - peter.chang at nottingham.ac.uk.