On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dwight Follick wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've recently been trying to load Mandrake 8.0 on my machine (I'm fricken
> sick of Windoze) and when I'm in the installation trying to configure the
> XFree86 4.03 part, it tests out my card and it freezes when it switches
> screen modes or something - the screen goes black.
>
> My card is a SiS 630 and I believe that XFree86 4.03 is having some problems
> with those cards.
>
> Is there no way around this?
>
> I have the Mandrake distribution on 2 ReWritable CDs - I downloaded the ISOs
> on a 56k modem (and yes it took a fricken long time)
I have the SiS 630 also, and Mandrake recognized and installed with
no problem. Maybe your download went bad? Anyway, you could try to
skip the x configuration, and set your XF86config file the 'old fashioned' way.
Regards,
Irv
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