On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:10:55 +0100 "Mike Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there > any issues > using > > this (and the sis chipset) with Linux? > > I have a severe and potentially unwarranted distaste for SiS > anything. The > chipsets they develop are the cheepest and nastiest things I've > encountered. > > *In general* if you dont or can't obtain a specially developed sis > driver > for whatever-it-is, then it is totally and completely incompatible > with any > of the industry standards for that product making it unusuable with > 'standard' drivers. > > One of the classic examples from this company from hell is their > laughable > 'vga''chipsets. It would be accepted by most that the 1st 16 'modes' > of vga > are 'industry standard'. Meaning that they are the modes as defined > by IBM > on the original product and garanteed to work on *any* pc. Until > that is, > this awful SiScrap hit the deck where they decided to save 2 cents > and > simply not have them. Makes booting with a Sis vga card an excercise > in > futility. > > Other undocumented features from this shitset are stealing real > memory from > the top of your real memory because again, they don't like the > thought of > paying 0.0002 cents for the drill holes in their pcb's to accomodate > on > board memory. Thus, although SiSshit claims to be 5ns compatible: > try it > some time. > I haven't checked on 2.4.17-pren releases, but the past few stable kernel releases would not build AGP-SIS support (compile failure). I have to comment this out when building a kernel. Also, it's much better to have a real video card than one of the on-the-motherboard crapolas. -- Collins Richey Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre5+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
