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

[Christopher Biggs]

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Tony Nugent <tony at linuxworks.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> On Thu Nov 20 2003 at 15:28, Robert Stanford wrote:
>> http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml
>
> Indeed it has, everything and more besides - google.com/linux
> quickly got me there very quickly.
>
>   However his site hasn't helped (so far), I suspect that unless I
>   am prepared to download and compile the latest beta for his sis
>   driver (he's the sis developer for XFree), then it won't.

What more do you want? Thomas to fly out from germany and fix your
laptop for personally?   Compile the driver!

The driver from winischhofer.net worked painlessly for me.  The
particular SiS card that I have is not even _detected_ by the stock
XFree86 driver, but the updated driver works fine.

Drivers in XFree86 releases tend to be (sometimes frustratingly)
reliable and well tested, hence not necessarily bleeding edge.

--cjb





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