Re: [newbie] About the known problem with SiS
Hi, You should put it under Option " noaccel" Take a look at my XF86Config done with a SiS 6236 card. Hope this helps Bernardo # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1995 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section "Files" # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory # to the end of this list (or comment them out). # #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" # For OSs that support Dynamically loaded modules, ModulePath can be # used to set a search path for the modules. This is currently supported # for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x and NetBSD 1.x. The default path is shown # here. #ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" EndSection # ** # Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. Dynamically loadable # modules are currently supported only for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x # and NetBSD 1.x. Currently, dynamically loadable modules are used # only for some extended input (XInput) device drivers. # ** # # Section "Module" # # This loads the module for the Joystick driver # # Load "xf86Jstk.so" # # EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With # it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes, # but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will # receive a protocol error. # DisableVidModeExtension # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. # AllowNonLocalXvidtune # Uncomment
Re: [newbie] About the known problem with SiS
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Below is an excerpt from my XF86Config file that shows how my SiS 6326 AGP is set up. It should be no different for a PCI card. The below assumes the XF86_SVGA server in Mandrake 7.0. # Device configured by Xconfigurator: Section "Device" Identifier "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|86C326" VendorName "Sertek" BoardName "3DPro" VideoRam4096 Option "no_accel" # Use this if acceleration is causing problems # Option "fifo_moderate" # Option "fifo_conserv" # Option "fifo_aggresive" Option "fast_vram" Option "pci_burst_on" # Option "xaa_benchmark" # DON'T use with "ext_eng_queue" !!! # Option "ext_eng_queue" # Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing # errors, but gives some accel # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection The 'Option "no_accell"...' line was commented out be default after I ran Xconfigurator thus accell was enabled. Uncommenting the line disabled accell and now my display is good. I hope this helps you. Some where on the WWW, perhaps on the SuSe page, there exists a SiS 6326 HOWTO. I'll try to find the URL and send it to you but you may try to find it yourself. It has some good info. Chuck Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message ----- From: "^*Tim*^ *^Seedorf^*" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:06 AM Subject: [newbie] About the known problem with SiS I was wondering,if anyone could tell me where in the file etc/X11/XF86Config i would insert the code 'noaccel' i need to know for my linux to work,thanx.please check this file and tell me Tim __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] About the known problem with SiS
I was wondering,if anyone could tell me where in the file etc/X11/XF86Config i would insert the code 'noaccel' i need to know for my linux to work,thanx.please check this file and tell me Tim __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] About the known problem with SiS
I was wondering,if anyone could tell me where in the file etc/X11/XF86Config i would insert the code 'noaccel' i need to know for my linux to work,thanx.please check this file and tell me Tim __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] About the known problem with SiS
^*Tim*^ *^Seedorf^* wrote: I was wondering,if anyone could tell me where in the file etc/X11/XF86Config i would insert the code 'noaccel' i need to know for my linux to work,thanx.please check this file and tell me Tim __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From someones post in alt.os.linux.mandrake: (I guess this is the official line) I started to try to use Linux last weekend (still working on this weekend) and had the same problems. I emailed support, and here is what they told me: 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" VideoRam8192 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: VideoRam8192 to: VideoRam4096 Cheers Warren.
