According to peace motlogelwa: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi, everyone, happy new year.
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> I am using a SiS6326 video card. I am running Redhat Linux 5.2 and I
> just downloaded and installed XFree86-3.3.3.
>
> My problem is that when I try to run X using startx the system simple
> goes back to the shell prompt. When I try to run applications like emacs
> it gives me the following error : "segmentation fault (core dumped)".
> I then decided to run Superprobe version 2.18(dec 1998) and it gives me
> the following :
Emacs giving a core dump is a totaly different problem that you have with
your video card.
To find out what is causing the problem with emacs i suggest you do;
gdb emacs core
bt
quit
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> first Video : Super-VGA
> chipset : Silicon Intergrated Systems (chipset unknown)(PCIprobed)
> signature data : 6(please report)
> memory : 0Kbytes
> RAMDAC : Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup
> tables(or 6-bit mode)).
It looks like your card is not recocnised properly. you could howevery try
to define it a a generic vga card in /etc/XF86Config.
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> Please if you have any suggestion how to fix this help.The video cards
> specification says it has 8MB memory, but superprobe says 0. I am a
> really newbie.
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Regards Richard.
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Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
