Hi, I have an ECS A900 laptop, which contains a SIS630 graphics chip. I also have other laptops (Clevo 2700) with the same chip which work just fine.
I have done a clean install of Debian 3.0, and upgraded that to testing. I then installed x-windows-system, selected the vesa driver, and that seems to work properly. Then I installed kdm and kde. kdm seems to work quite properly, the keyboard and mouse both work, and the screen is properly displayed. But when I try to start KDE it gets to where it is initialising peripherals, and bang, it reverts to kdm. Looking in the logs it is complaining about a Fatal IO error, which looking at the source is an X error. Looking at the logs further I found that I was looking for two mice, so I removed the wrong one (the remaining one a psaux touchpad) and retried, same result. Then I noticed that there were errors about PEX and Roman_M, so I googled and found that PEX was no longer needed and removed the Load "PEX5" from the XF86Config-4. Finally I found a message saying that the error was a broken pipe (code 32). The only messages that are different between the two XFree86.0.log files are right at the end, where the failing box repeats three messages which appear earlier in the working box (and earlier in the failing box):- virtual address = 0x4025f000 - physical address 0xd0000000 size = 16777216 (==) VESA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (**) VESA(0): DPMS enabled Eventually I intend to move to the proper SIS drivers, now that they seem to work with the latest 630 support chips, but as I had a framebuffer box on this chipset already working I thought that would be easier to start with. Any ideas? David _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
