Re: [XFree86] problems with sis 630 video card

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml Forget the SiS website. Thomas Andrew Rothbart wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a linux newbie trying to sort out some problems with XFree. I am running XFree 4.3 under the Mandrake 9.1 distribution. My video card is a SiS 630 onboard. I'm not sure how much

Re: [XFree86] problems with sis 630 video card

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
One thing I would try is adding the 'noapic' perameter to your kernel at boot. Either to your grub.conf or lilo.conf depending on whether your using lilo or grub to boot linux. Just add the word noapic to the end of the line that says something like: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro /dev/hda1

[XFree86] problems with sis 630 video card

2003-08-05 Thread Andrew Rothbart
Hi everyone, I'm a linux newbie trying to sort out some problems with XFree. I am running XFree 4.3 under the Mandrake 9.1 distribution. My video card is a SiS 630 onboard. I'm not sure how much background history I should give, so I'll be on the safe side and give tons. The first time I

Re: [XFree86] problems with sis 630 video card

2003-08-05 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:07:42PM -0700, Andrew Rothbart wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a linux newbie trying to sort out some problems with XFree. I am running XFree 4.3 under the Mandrake 9.1 distribution. My video card is a SiS 630 onboard. I'm not sure how much background history I should give,