Civileme wrote:
> I have a Shuttle HOT-599 Motherboard which carries the SiS530 Chipset.
>
> I have DLed xsis.rpm from www.suse.de, but when I expand this, the
> file I was told to read, i.e. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.XFCom_SiS
> is not there to be read. Does anyone have handy an XF86Config file
> that points to XSuSE or XFCom? Either the 530 or 620 chipset from SiS
> should be supported by this.
Try XFree86 3.3.4! Surely support Sis530/620!
SiS 530/620 is same... but difference from Sis6326, even they are same
functions!
> If not, I'll probably share one later when my wild guesses in
> XF86Config bear fruit. I do have about a 140 x 120 window into a 640
> x480 screen now.
>
> Next part of my question, any resources for sound for this or do I
> need to hammer on SiS for enough info to write the driver?
>
> This is a very high quality Micro-ATX Board and would be neat for
> "Appliance" class computers featuring linux. I ran it for 200 hours
> at 112MHz under the most stressful win98 benchmarks I could find and
> nary a hiccup.
>
> On another topic, for those who report installation halts and errors
> on certain systems with Seagate drives, I have discovered that there
> is a fix from Via.com.tw for the BIOS of their chipsets that makes it
> go away. The Seagate 38641 I used initially on this Shuttle would not
> install on a HOT-591 because the BIOS set it into the wrong mode for
> the install. <Shakes head> It works unless you have a BIOS older
> than 1998 Jun with a Seagate Ultra-DMA capable drive. This spookiness
> makes me feel more like a warlock than a tech.
>
> Civileme
>
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