Hi Shankar,
I have had a bad experience with SiS 6215 card. I have a LAN of 18 PII 350
MHz machines and 17 with 6215 cards. In RH 6.1 I tried the solution given by
PCQuest but failed miserably to run X. However, in RH 6.0 I am running the
LAN beautifully with X in 32 bit colors and 800X600 resolution. The trick is
to configure the X withXF86Config and give any SiS related name there. then
open the file XF86Config in /etc/X11/ directory. go to the subsection of
"Display" "Configured by XConfigurator" and unremark the line for VRAM and
add a line "ChipSet "SiS86C205"" without the outside quotes. and start
ur X with startx command. In RH 6.0 it is guaranteed to work. But not in
6.1.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Shanker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Re: X windows setup
> vilas kumar c wrote:
> >(stop maligning these poor SiS cards.....
>
> We have every right to blame SiS for their goofup on Linux support -
>
> 1. They don't give out the programming specs for their chipsets.
> 2. They flood the Indian market with the lousiest VGA cards money can
> buy. Nobody outside India has *heard* of SiS.
> 3. Atul and gang had to hack the Nov. RHL PCQ 6.1 cover CD for out of
> the box SiS support.
> 4. We could have avoided the "AAAAARRGHHHS" which enters our minds each
> time some newbie asks his innocent question "Help, i have a SiS
> card...."
> 5. The zillions of time we had to point out "Pleeeease read the
> archives"
>
> >they are the poor man's Matrox Millenium).
>
> No way! Have u ever tried do a timedemo on a SiS?
>
> Next time we have a Linux roadshow, come over and just help us out with
> the SiS support queries willya?
>
> -- Shanu
> P.S. If u want to flame me, please do so privately!
>
>
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