Hey all- Thanks for the response--I'll tell you what I've got so far, but there is a slight problem.... Got the SIS card to work by switching it to the primary card in the BIOS. The only problem is that I mussed up my old monitor somehow when I was having those memory/io allocation problems with the xinerama. Not sure how that happened, but now my old monitor is not working for any hardware configuration-- not even my old set-up. Have anyone heard of anything like this happening before? I will have to procure another monitor to get back to the xinerama testing which might take a couple of days, but I did not want for ya'll to think that I was unappreciative of the response. As soon as I do I will try messing around with the pci configuration, and might be back asking some questions. Thanks,
Michael Luchtan http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > My guess is that the SIS driver doesn't work well as a secondary > > card (that is the one the bios didn't POST). > > That might be true for that old version. Try the current one from > www.winischhofer.net which works excellently if SiS cards are secondary. > (Well, depending on a sane BIOS, that is. If the card can't be POSTed at > all, the driver can't do much about it.) > > > If you can change something in the motherboard bios to get the > > SIS card to be the primary (the one the console comes up on), that > > may help. > > > > Also, you might want to see if you can get the SIS card to > > come up all by it self as the only card. Just as a sanity > > check to make sure it actually works with any drivers. > > It doesn't look good though. Even that old driver recognized the card > and could read all setup-data from the registers (memory, clock speed > etc). This does not happen that way if there were POST problems. > > The log entries about shared resources should not appear in any case. > This points to a pci configuration problem. > > Thomas > > > > > > > Mark. > > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, MICHAEL LUCHTAN wrote: > > > > > >>Hello y'all > >>I'm not sure if this is the place to ask the question, but I will throw it > >>out there and see if anyone can help me. Anything offered is much > >>appreciated.... > >>A friend of mine, after getting kicked out of his house by his wife, was > >>giving away some of his stuff so that he didn't have to move it all. > >>Anyway, I got a really nice monitor out of the deal for free. So I wanted > >>to try and implement this dual-head xinerama deal. I got it working with > >>this REALLY old video card as my second video card, but it was real buggy > >>(and I think it is because of the unreliability of that old card). I went > >>out and bought a new video card (by necessaty(sp?) a pci card since I > >>already have my agp slot filled) from the local computer guy by a company > >>called Kaser, SIS series. This uses the sis chip and according to their > >>website works with the vga and vesa drivers. > >>(website:http://www.kasercorp.com/vgafaqnf.cfm) > >>Using > >> > >>>X -configure > >> > >>I get the attached XF86Config.new file > >>Which seems to recognize the video card. > >>But when I try to run X with the -xfconfig for the new config file, I get > >>the attached error log. > >>If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. In attempting to get > >>this working, I've learned a good bit about the XF86Config-4 file, which > >>is neat. > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Michael Luchtan > >>http://www.cs.uga.edu/~luchtan > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > -- > Thomas Winischhofer > Vienna/Austria > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.winischhofer.net > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
