On Sunday 15 April 2001 08:14, you wrote: > 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 I'm happy to hear that the SiS video has actually any umpfe. The integrate everything in a chip chipset is called a 730 but it can be that the video in it is the same as a 630. About pc100 (or should that be pc93) being PCChips. You don't want to know(yes). The fact that XFdrake doesn't give the option for XF4. It is just a database with some minor poling and seeing that the 730 is new is probably the reason why it hasn't been added. About there being a driver for it. I don't know and the documentation from X about SiS drivers is (really) bad so i would suggest looking at the source. I can read it but i think you can understand it so i would say:may the source be with you. There is a real possibillity that if it works with XF4 it doesn't work with a framebuffered tty (as needed by Aurora) because the SIS 6326 and 530 have problems with it. It could be that it has been solved but for a strange reason i don't think so.(haven't used my SiS6326 for about 2 weeks)
