Never mind....I just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with
Linux...just my luck!
TZ
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Zocolillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems
> Hello,
>
> This is my 1st post....
> I just installed Mandrake 6.1 this weekend on a PC with a Cyrix 333Mhz,
32Mb
> RAM, 6.4 Gb HD, 44X CDROM, and 4Mb APG SiS 5597. When I select SiS5597 as
> the graphic device during istall, the test of X displays graphics ok but
> text gets displayed as black boxes and is unreadable. I ended up
installing
> the 16 color VGA driver and would like to try changing it to the SiS5597
> driver. Is anyone aware of a problem with the on-board SiS 5597? Is
there
> another driver that will work? Is there something I can adjust in the
CMOS
> that will fix this problem? Is there a generic SVGA driver that will get
me
> 800x600x256? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Zoccolillo
>
