Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
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

Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
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

Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources

2003-04-01 Thread MICHAEL LUCHTAN
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

Re: [XFree86] shares mem io resources

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
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