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
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