Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-12 Thread Jesse Royall
John: I saw that to.. but from what I have seen it don't. it will show the desktop and tool bar just fine.. when you use the menus (KDE or any desktop) it shows text as blacked out and boxed... Every place I go says they support it. SiS says they don't but XF86 does... which it don't obviously. si

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Never mindI just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with > Linux...just my luck! > TZ > Well, they're SUPPOSED to at least according to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html They say it *should* work with the XF86_SVGA server. John

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-11 Thread Tony Zocolillo
Never mindI just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with Linux...just my luck! TZ - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Changing Graphics car

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-11 Thread Jesse Royall
Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card an

[newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-11 Thread Tony Zocolillo
Hello, This is my 1st post I just installed Mandrake 6.1 this weekend on a PC with a Cyrix 333Mhz, 32Mb RAM, 6.4 Gb HD, 44X CDROM, and 4Mb APG SiS 5597. When I select SiS5597 as the graphic device during istall, the test of X displays graphics ok but text gets displayed as black boxes and is