[H-GEN] getting x working on laptop with a sis chipset video...

[ben.carlyle at invensys.com]

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G'day,





Tony Nugent <tony at linuxworks.com.au>
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20/11/2003 02:39 PM
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> It just doesn't work.  As soon as the X server starts up, all I see
> are a bunch of thin coloured vertical lines on a (generally) white
> background.  (Suse's X configurator simply locks the screen up
> completely when it starts).
<snip>
> Worse... when I go back to a text console (whether framebuffer mode
> or not), the screen goes blank momentarily, then returns to the
> banding pattern again.  (At this point I do have kbd console
> control, just no screen to look at...  eg, at least I can blindly
> c-a-d or otherwise type commands - such as "reboot" :)

I have a sis 630... or something... at home :) This certainly rings a bell 
with me as I had all sorts of problems myself when I first installed it. I 
found that that only way to get it working was to explicitly install the 
framebuffer during my text-based startup before X gets its hands on the 
video-card. I don't recall the exact module name, but if memory serves I 
simply added it to my list of modules to load automatically at startup 
with my debian distribution.

I don't have access to my config from here at work. If that isn't enough 
of a hint I could check exactly what I do to get it working tonight when I 
get home.

Benjamin.



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