Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources
My guess is that the SIS driver doesn't work well as a secondary card (that is the one the bios didn't POST). If you can change something in the motherboard bios to get the SIS card to be the primary (the one the console comes up on), that may help. Also, you might want to see if you can get the SIS card to come up all by it self as the only card. Just as a sanity check to make sure it actually works with any drivers. Mark. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: Hello y'all I'm not sure if this is the place to ask the question, but I will throw it out there and see if anyone can help me. Anything offered is much appreciated A friend of mine, after getting kicked out of his house by his wife, was giving away some of his stuff so that he didn't have to move it all. Anyway, I got a really nice monitor out of the deal for free. So I wanted to try and implement this dual-head xinerama deal. I got it working with this REALLY old video card as my second video card, but it was real buggy (and I think it is because of the unreliability of that old card). I went out and bought a new video card (by necessaty(sp?) a pci card since I already have my agp slot filled) from the local computer guy by a company called Kaser, SIS series. This uses the sis chip and according to their website works with the vga and vesa drivers. (website:http://www.kasercorp.com/vgafaqnf.cfm) Using X -configure I get the attached XF86Config.new file Which seems to recognize the video card. But when I try to run X with the -xfconfig for the new config file, I get the attached error log. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. In attempting to get this working, I've learned a good bit about the XF86Config-4 file, which is neat. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources
Mark Vojkovich wrote: My guess is that the SIS driver doesn't work well as a secondary card (that is the one the bios didn't POST). That might be true for that old version. Try the current one from www.winischhofer.net which works excellently if SiS cards are secondary. (Well, depending on a sane BIOS, that is. If the card can't be POSTed at all, the driver can't do much about it.) If you can change something in the motherboard bios to get the SIS card to be the primary (the one the console comes up on), that may help. Also, you might want to see if you can get the SIS card to come up all by it self as the only card. Just as a sanity check to make sure it actually works with any drivers. It doesn't look good though. Even that old driver recognized the card and could read all setup-data from the registers (memory, clock speed etc). This does not happen that way if there were POST problems. The log entries about shared resources should not appear in any case. This points to a pci configuration problem. Thomas Mark. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: Hello y'all I'm not sure if this is the place to ask the question, but I will throw it out there and see if anyone can help me. Anything offered is much appreciated A friend of mine, after getting kicked out of his house by his wife, was giving away some of his stuff so that he didn't have to move it all. Anyway, I got a really nice monitor out of the deal for free. So I wanted to try and implement this dual-head xinerama deal. I got it working with this REALLY old video card as my second video card, but it was real buggy (and I think it is because of the unreliability of that old card). I went out and bought a new video card (by necessaty(sp?) a pci card since I already have my agp slot filled) from the local computer guy by a company called Kaser, SIS series. This uses the sis chip and according to their website works with the vga and vesa drivers. (website:http://www.kasercorp.com/vgafaqnf.cfm) Using X -configure I get the attached XF86Config.new file Which seems to recognize the video card. But when I try to run X with the -xfconfig for the new config file, I get the attached error log. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. In attempting to get this working, I've learned a good bit about the XF86Config-4 file, which is neat. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.winischhofer.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources
Hey all- Thanks for the response--I'll tell you what I've got so far, but there is a slight problem Got the SIS card to work by switching it to the primary card in the BIOS. The only problem is that I mussed up my old monitor somehow when I was having those memory/io allocation problems with the xinerama. Not sure how that happened, but now my old monitor is not working for any hardware configuration-- not even my old set-up. Have anyone heard of anything like this happening before? I will have to procure another monitor to get back to the xinerama testing which might take a couple of days, but I did not want for ya'll to think that I was unappreciative of the response. As soon as I do I will try messing around with the pci configuration, and might be back asking some questions. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: My guess is that the SIS driver doesn't work well as a secondary card (that is the one the bios didn't POST). That might be true for that old version. Try the current one from www.winischhofer.net which works excellently if SiS cards are secondary. (Well, depending on a sane BIOS, that is. If the card can't be POSTed at all, the driver can't do much about it.) If you can change something in the motherboard bios to get the SIS card to be the primary (the one the console comes up on), that may help. Also, you might want to see if you can get the SIS card to come up all by it self as the only card. Just as a sanity check to make sure it actually works with any drivers. It doesn't look good though. Even that old driver recognized the card and could read all setup-data from the registers (memory, clock speed etc). This does not happen that way if there were POST problems. The log entries about shared resources should not appear in any case. This points to a pci configuration problem. Thomas Mark. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: Hello y'all I'm not sure if this is the place to ask the question, but I will throw it out there and see if anyone can help me. Anything offered is much appreciated A friend of mine, after getting kicked out of his house by his wife, was giving away some of his stuff so that he didn't have to move it all. Anyway, I got a really nice monitor out of the deal for free. So I wanted to try and implement this dual-head xinerama deal. I got it working with this REALLY old video card as my second video card, but it was real buggy (and I think it is because of the unreliability of that old card). I went out and bought a new video card (by necessaty(sp?) a pci card since I already have my agp slot filled) from the local computer guy by a company called Kaser, SIS series. This uses the sis chip and according to their website works with the vga and vesa drivers. (website:http://www.kasercorp.com/vgafaqnf.cfm) Using X -configure I get the attached XF86Config.new file Which seems to recognize the video card. But when I try to run X with the -xfconfig for the new config file, I get the attached error log. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. In attempting to get this working, I've learned a good bit about the XF86Config-4 file, which is neat. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.winischhofer.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources
Bad timings from the video card can break really old monitors. But those are really only those old fixed frequency monitors (from like 10 years ago). Any modern multisync monitor should have no problems with out-of-range signals coming from the video card. Mark. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: Hey all- Thanks for the response--I'll tell you what I've got so far, but there is a slight problem Got the SIS card to work by switching it to the primary card in the BIOS. The only problem is that I mussed up my old monitor somehow when I was having those memory/io allocation problems with the xinerama. Not sure how that happened, but now my old monitor is not working for any hardware configuration-- not even my old set-up. Have anyone heard of anything like this happening before? I will have to procure another monitor to get back to the xinerama testing which might take a couple of days, but I did not want for ya'll to think that I was unappreciative of the response. As soon as I do I will try messing around with the pci configuration, and might be back asking some questions. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: My guess is that the SIS driver doesn't work well as a secondary card (that is the one the bios didn't POST). That might be true for that old version. Try the current one from www.winischhofer.net which works excellently if SiS cards are secondary. (Well, depending on a sane BIOS, that is. If the card can't be POSTed at all, the driver can't do much about it.) If you can change something in the motherboard bios to get the SIS card to be the primary (the one the console comes up on), that may help. Also, you might want to see if you can get the SIS card to come up all by it self as the only card. Just as a sanity check to make sure it actually works with any drivers. It doesn't look good though. Even that old driver recognized the card and could read all setup-data from the registers (memory, clock speed etc). This does not happen that way if there were POST problems. The log entries about shared resources should not appear in any case. This points to a pci configuration problem. Thomas Mark. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: Hello y'all I'm not sure if this is the place to ask the question, but I will throw it out there and see if anyone can help me. Anything offered is much appreciated A friend of mine, after getting kicked out of his house by his wife, was giving away some of his stuff so that he didn't have to move it all. Anyway, I got a really nice monitor out of the deal for free. So I wanted to try and implement this dual-head xinerama deal. I got it working with this REALLY old video card as my second video card, but it was real buggy (and I think it is because of the unreliability of that old card). I went out and bought a new video card (by necessaty(sp?) a pci card since I already have my agp slot filled) from the local computer guy by a company called Kaser, SIS series. This uses the sis chip and according to their website works with the vga and vesa drivers. (website:http://www.kasercorp.com/vgafaqnf.cfm) Using X -configure I get the attached XF86Config.new file Which seems to recognize the video card. But when I try to run X with the -xfconfig for the new config file, I get the attached error log. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. In attempting to get this working, I've learned a good bit about the XF86Config-4 file, which is neat. Thanks, Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.winischhofer.net ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
