On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:45:43PM +0200, Daniel Fabian wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry to bother you all again. As some of you told me, I setup a minimal > system, and installed xfree86 and kde with apt-get. Now that the installed > completed correctly, I'm experiencing my next problem: startx sets my screen > into graphic mode and I see two stripes in gray (looks somehow like the > screen does not support a that high color depth, but in windows I have 32bit > color depth, and in xfree, I set it to 16). > > The according section in XF86Conf-4 is probably Device and the "Driver" > option is set to "sis" (it's a SIS630 chip onboard). I have some experience > with linux in a server environment, but I have absolutly zero experience > with linux as desktop, so I can't really help myself. I read up on my laptop > on linux-laptop.net (well, the google cache, it's down again), but did not > find anything usefull. >
I had similar problems with the xserver-xfree86 driver and the SIS630 onboard video in one of my systems. If you check the driver status document at http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status30.html#30, you will see that for the SiS630, "there are some problems with this version." I replaced that with the xserver-svga driver. Yes it is 3.3.6 not 4.x, but with this driver, I find the video to be quite satisfactory (although I haven't tried anything really demanding.) This version of the older driver works with the other components of X 4.x. Hopefully a future version of the X 4.x driver will fully support the 630. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]