On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 22:14, Eduardo L�tz wrote: > Hi, guys. > > Straight to the point: is there a NVidia board with SiS305 chipset?
No. > Is there a way to use its hardware acceleration mechanisms on Linux > with XFree86? > > The story so far: > > A couple of months ago I've bought a graphics accelerated card for > a really tempting price at a usually respectful shop. According to the box, > it was NVidia TNT2 M64, 32MB, AGP. But on the board itself there is > no NVidia identificator and the chipset is SiS305. > > I am currently using XFree86 4.1.0 with the sis driver. It is ok, but with > no hardware acceleration and fewer video modes than with XFree86 3.3.6, > even if we use the apropriate Modeline options (the numbers that work > quite well in 3.3.6 seem to be misinterpreted by the X engine). Also, the > driver sees only 16 MB. > > I know that this board is capable of hardware acceleration because the > driver for windows that I tested worked pretty fine with games. And > similar games on Linux become terribly slow. > > I have tried the nvidia driver several times, following every instruction, > but it does not find any graphics board (no useful clue from troublesooting > sections), so I suspect it has nothing to do with NVidia. > > Does anybody has a clue of what is going on? > > Thanks in advance. > > Eduardo Lutz. > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
