On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Doug Piper wrote: > What am I doing wrong? I am unable to configure my monitor for XWindows > ? It is a new computer -Athlon 700 with Epox 7kxa mb. My card is > listed - sis6326, my monitor is listed - Sony cpd 15sf2. With every > attempt I get a failure. I have not attempted to install drivers that > came with the card as my assumption is that they are for Windoz. I > believe I know the server but the xconfigurator program doesn't give me > a chance to choose. > IIRC, there are some known "issues" with SiS chipset video cards and X-windows. The best thing to do is follow the following instructions (saved out for just such an occasion as this <G>): The SiS 6326 has a known bug with the X window system. On your Linux system is a file named /etc/X11/XF86Config . This text file is made up of sections that look like this: Section "Device" ....(various entries here) EndOfSection You need to edit the section of this file called "Device." If you have a card with 8MB of video memory, first try telling the X server that there is only 4MB present by adding the following line to the Device section of your config file: Videoram 4096 If you have a 4MB card, or if the above line doesn't help, try adding the following line to the Device section: Option "nolinear" A drawback with this option is that colour depths higher than 8bpp can't be used, but that is better than nothing. If you see problems when moving windows with KDE, try the following: Option "no_pixmap_cache" All of these problems with the SiS6326 video cards should be fixed in the next release of XFree. From: http://rampages.onramp.net/~slywolf/ (a page about the SiS6326) # ********************************************************************** # Graphics device section # ********************************************************************** Section "Device" Identifier "SiS 6326" VendorName "PC 100 Multimedia" BoardName "3D AGP Pro" VideoRam 8192 Option "no_accel" ### HERE!!! ### EndSection Yours will look a bit different. Option "noaccel" might be the right way to write it now though. You could try some of the options Mandrake suggests as well (one to a line)eg: Option "nolinear" Option "no_pixmap_cache" & change the line that says: VideoRam 8192 to: VideoRam 4096 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
