On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:56, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:53, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > So far it looks pretty good to me. One of my systems has an ASUS > > motherboard with the SiS 630 chipset and 4.1 really didn't like it. > > 4.2 is fine, except that it doesn't appear to support glx with that > > chip. On another system with a Trident CyberBlade chip, it doesn't > > appear to have any problems. I haven't yet given 4.2 a real > > workout on either system. > > Glx works just fine with that chip, but you need a kernel patch to > support the sis agpgart. > > Get all info at www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml > > There are patches, new drivers and lots of documentation. > This guy also patched the sis driver in the xfree 4.1/4.2 you're using, > since the original sis driver from sis itself didn't work on many cards. > > -- > Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 > Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT > Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl
Agreed - so far everything seems great here - just wanted people that pin to Testing to not get caught off-guard to a rather significant change. I trust that everything that can be done to make sure it is solid has been done, but something the scale of X isn't assured of being thoroughly tested in most possible problem areas until it gets put in wide-spread production. Time to produce :) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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