Sorry, this mail got delayed... On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:44, David Shepherd wrote: > I need some help setting up a SiS 6236 PCI graphics card on my elderly Potato > box. > Has anyone got one of these working with XFree 3.3.6? > > I want to know if its possible to change the IRQ that the SiS card is using. > Currently its using IRQ 11 which conflicts with my RealTek 8029 NIC > (which also wants to use IRQ 11). > > Alternatively I could change the IRQ that the RealTek card uses, > do I specify this as a LILO parameter at bootup? I've had a machine with had a 6236 onboard. The best thing you can do is plug the realtek into another pci slot. That will change the IRQ automatically. It's probably shared between the port it's in now and the agp/pci slot the video-chip is in.
I don't remember having any big problems getting the sis working back then (Not so much as I had with the sis630 i'm using on my laptop now) Maniac
