On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse
> > was represented by a large white block, regardless of what I did with the
> > X display options that box was always there in place of a mouse
> > cursor. This only occurs in 7.2 though, 7.1 has no problems at all,
> > maybe an XFree86 4.0.1 problem?
You need the software cursor option - it defaulted to hardware.
> > > I, too, have a machine that goes coma-tose and nothing responds except
> > > ctrl-alt-del! I can access it from telnet, but all local access is dead. My
> > > problem is simple to locate, however, it is my SiS6326 video chip - it doesn't
> > > like switching from console mode to X - about 1 in 3 switches it totally looses
> > > it!
I've a machine running the SiS 6326 on 7.0 here and it was an absolute
pain to set up - I'll send you an XF86Config if you like; I don't have that
problem though. I ended up hacking the modelines manually. It seems the system
doesn't see the whole middle range of dac speeds, so you have to do strange
things to get around it. XF86Setup fails to start on it, and every X setup
program sets it up wrong. There's a comment somewhere suggesting 85Hz for all
modes. I spent an hour punching in numbers into modelines until I was happy
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