On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: >> 2. Installed the SiS X driver sis_drv.o_260202.tar.gz. >> >> 3. Set up the X config file with a depth of 16 or 24 and specified >> the option MaxXFBMem to 12288 in the Device section. >> >> 4. Tried to run the tuxracer program. The screen became black (or almost) >> with a dark pointer in it. Some clicks were heard on the speakers, >> and the system froze. >> >> Attached is the output of the xdpyinfo program. >> >> Any clues? > >Well, not yet. Please send me (not the list) the X log, your >XF86Config-4 and the output of glxinfo. The relevant part of syslog >would be interesting, too (the lines starting with "sisfb:" and a few of >the following) > >It is known that some older distributions of X 4.1 (such as early >Redhat's) had problems with DRI. I use Debian's 4.1.0.1 and it works >here.
SiS DRI has never worked until recently until Alan Cox sent a DRM patch which I believe originated at Caldera. Aparently since then SiS DRI works, at least on some SiS hardware. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
