andre, Thanks for the response! andre wrote: > You know that you are talking about an SiS video card with framebuffer. > Inserting an older card may actually improve gaming. > Matsonic 8308 (isn't that a shell for pcchips) has a SiS 730 chip not an 630 I would not be surprised if pcchips sells (or makes) the same or a similar motherboard, and Matsonic may indeed be a shell for pcchips. Another similar motherboard is sold under the Alton name. There is some confusion (in my mind at least) about what video chip it uses -- the Windows driver is for an SiS 630, and, when my hardware is recognized during install, the video chip is recognized as a 630, but another chip (maybe a PCI interface or bus chip?) is recognized as a 730. I've seen this chipset labeled as a 630/730 in some contexts. The chipset does some of the new fancy 3D things, and performs much better in Windows that the previous graphics chip, which was an SiS 5597 integrated on a different motherboard (a PC100 motherboard -- is that by PCChips?). Anyway, this is all just a digression. I'm sure that this chipset can function as a framebuffer or generic SVGA board under Linux, the questions are: How do I make that happen during the install? Is there a bug in the install which Mandrake can/should fix? Thanks, Randy Kramer
