Both the Sis 6215C and Trident 975 as available in India have been widely
reported as cut down versions of the original chipsets: hence getting them
to work with the designated X server is itself a major task. Try X 4
failing which the Vesa Framebuffer , which works with both cards , which are
thankfully Vesa 2 compatible.
Shanker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shourya Sarcar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] A weird effect...
> hi ! more nagging :-)
> i had a few friends complaining that RH6.2 would crash and hang while
> starttnig X on SiS6215C and Trident cards (i am not sure ab the model)
> whilst they worked on 6.1.
> Caveat:2nd hand report
>
> shourya
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arnab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] A weird effect...
>
>
> > I just want to add to whoever is having a great time
> > with 6.2 is that I had another weird effect ...my
> > Display card which is Trident 975 AGP and which was
> > working great with redhat 6.0 was detected by 6.2 (as
> > I was installing and not upgrading ) BUT then when
> > running X for the first time it showed some problem
> > with probing clockchip of the card and OH my god the
> > whole system hang ....everything stopped responding
> > .....I am not sure its really a display card's problem
> > .....so I need advice from anyone who had a similar
> > kindda problem b4 I go in for another card.
> > .....
> > arnab
> > P.S: And yes Mr. D'Rozario I faced the SAME problem as
> > you ...RH is eating some space for sure cause I tried
> > installing it on a 502 Mb partition and the total
> > package size which was reported 450 something Mb
> > failed due to "insufficient disk space " !!!
> >
> > --- Ignatius Nayan D'Rozario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > I tried to 'upgrade' my RH6.1 to 6.2 using the PCQ
> > > CD and it told me
> > > that I needed 49 MB of space MORE... So I got rid of
> > > the kernel, FAQs
> > > etc. Next I again tried the upgrade. This time
> > > around I was told that I
> > > was short of 2Mb.
> > >
> > > So I got rid of some more stuff to have 87% of my
> > > Linux partition
> > > [/dev/hda2] full. "/" is here. But everytime I try
> > > to do this with the
> > > SAME options the DiskSpace reduces by 1% and I'm
> > > told that there is a
> > > shortage of 2Mb.
> > >
> > > What's the funda ? I figure that RH is making some
> > > sorta backup which
> > > fills up 10Mb or so everytime but WHERE does RH put
> > > these gunk ? Or what
> > > else can cause this effect ? I tried
> > > tX-Mozilla-Status: 0009ot find a
> > > solution ? I am including the df listing when the
> > > disk is 89% full.
> > >
> > > Incidentally I have NEVER managed to get RH to
> > > upgrade my Boxen. Is
> > > there something that I am missing out ? I know I can
> > > start of on a fresh
> > > partition. But I REALLY want to know why the upgrade
> > > path won't work...
> > >
> > > INIGO
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