----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ossie Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: [XFree86] startx hangs - SiS 740


> Brand new Cybertron machine, installed Mandrake 9.2, everything works
great
> so far except X - startx produces a blank screen and hangs there. Tried
the
> new Mandrake XFree86-4.3-24mdk rpm compiled Oct. 7 and also tried the
> precompiled sis_drv.o from winischhofer.net. Same result each time, just a
> black screen, no errors that I can see. I have to Alt-F1 to get my shell
> back. Any ideas?
>
> Motherboard: M810D
> Chipset: SiS740 (and SiS962L)
>
  I think your problem may be that you used the "precompiled driver".  If I
remember
Winischhofer's instructions, the precompiled drivers are very specific as to
the version
of X they were built for, and the gcc version used for the build.  Since you
have a brand
new Mandrake release, I suspect that the prebuilt driver may not work.
Download the
driver source, and then download XFree86 source for the version that comes
w/Mandrake.
Follow Winischhofer's directions which worked fine for me.  Use the newly
built driver
generated by this procedure rather than the precompiled one.

Regards,
Jeff S

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