On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:00, Heracles wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:1 3, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > Thanks for this Matt & Peter. I'll have a look at the logs later today > > (it's my wife's machine). I'm running RH8 and it picked the vesa driver > > - I've tried a few others without success. > > > > Doing an lspci -vv on it gives: > > VGA Compatible Controller: SiS: unknown device 6325 > > Subsystem: MicroStar International: unknown device 5339. > > > Alan, I know that chipset (SiS 6325) quite well. It was once necessary > to download a special driver for it, but now the driver is included in > the Xfree_SVGA drivers(don't use the VESA driver). XFree version 4.1 should have no > trouble with > it. If the problem persists either get the latest version of XFree or > go back to the last of version 3 (3.3.6 If I recall) and use Xfree_SVGA.
thanks to everybody on this. In the end, I cheated: the Knoppix looked so good that I did a complete install onto the hard disk (easy to do since there wasn't much data on the machine). Looks terrific with KDE. Thanks again, Alan -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html