Throw that card out.Some of them have problems going beyond 60 hz refresh
rate as well! Exchange with the S3 trio64+ , difference was Rs 75 1 1/2
months back when a friend & I got rid of it.
shanker
----- Original Message -----
From: Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 05:16
Subject: [ilug-cal] SiS6215 -- That blasted card again! ;-)
> Hi folks,
>
> Yesterday, I went over to our fellow LUGer Supratik's home to help him
> install RHL 5.2 (he was using Debian 2.0 --> Hamm). His video card is
> SiS6215C.....XFree86 3.3.3.1 has support for SiS6215, selecting that I
> ended up with the server crashing, mainly due to lack of memory...64k was
> detected (actual VRAM on the card is 2 MB)....after tweaking with the
> settings in XF86Config I got it to run at a horrible res 320 x 240
> :-(....however, I managed to push the card up to 800 x 600 at 256 colors
by
> selecting SiS6201 chipset and then manually setting the correct VRAM
> settings within XF86Config. The Res is fine....but the colors are somewhat
> grainy particularly with Windowmaker, and Gimp 1.0.1 is crashing after
> loading the extension.fu.... (I suspect that 8 bpp setting is causing the
> problem) ...according to postings on Linux-India, the Rev B and C of the
> SiS6215 aren't yet supported...is there any way out, apart from the
obvious
> card swap....any advice except of rolling out my own driver is welcome ;-)
>
> --Indra.
>
>
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