Irony or Ironies. Just saw this site while trying to find something else. So here it is.
http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml Nothing but info on the SiS chipsets and Linux. Pretty extensive too. Hope it helps. James On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:57, Abhijeet Joglekar wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Sis 630/730 Video card and X freezes on me the moment I move the > mouse a couple of times. Without moving the mouse, it seems to work fine. > Initially, I thought it was a problem with ps/2 mouse and so tried the > other mice variants (serial/usb), but its the same problem. Attached below > is some tests that I did on my machine initially when I thought that mouse > was the problem. > > Later, I found out that Xfree86 3.3.6 had support for sis 630 but the > newer XFree86 server (4.2) which is distributed with mandrake 9.0 does not > have well tested support for sis 630. I tried using the older server > (3.3.6), but it still crashes. The crash is complete, the mouse, keyboard > are locked and I cant ping/ssh to the machine. Hard reboot is the only > option. > > Has anybody else had this problem with the Sis cards? BTW, Win 2k does > fine on the same card. > > What are my options if the problem is really that the X server does not > work well with the SIS 630 card? Buy another well supported card? > If so, which are the well supported cards that people have which did not > create any problems with the X distributed with 9.0 ? > > Thanks. > - Abhijeet > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 00:41:38 -0600 (MDT) > From: Abhijeet Joglekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] SUMMARY : ps/2 mouse freeze on starting X > > A short summary/report on the latest status of this problem: > (Mandrake 9.0 dual boot with win 2K) > > 1) linux on console works fine, doesnt crash. gpm works fine too. > 2) X works fine as long as I dont touch the mouse. Infact I am composing > this mail from X. > 3) The machine freezes/crashes after I move the mouse a few times. This is > true for serial/usb/ps2 mice. After this, the keyboard is also locked. > The machine stops responding to ping and ssh does not work. Hard reboot > is the only option. Before the freeze, ping and ssh into the machine > work fine. > 4) Xf86configuration detects the correct graphics chipset (sis 630), mouse > and keyboard. So everything seems fine until I move the mouse. > 5) Video memory is 32M which is shared from a RAM of 256M . I tried lilo > with append="mem=224M" also. Crashes with/without this option. > 6) The memory section in "Control Centre" in KDE shows kernel memory as > 224 M, so it seems as if linux (probably X too) knows that only 224 M > is available. > 7) Surprisingly, I did not find any section in "Control Centre" refering > to Video RAM, not also in the X server section. > 8) The X Server is Xfree86 4.2.1, patch level 3mdk (default X server with > Mandrake 9.0) > > Any ideas on what could be wrong? Any other data/tests needed which might > help in diagnosing the problem? > > Thanks much. > - Abhijeet > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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