Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 22:59:07 GMT From: <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, Fawaz Talal <bsdi@usa.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SiS 6326 Message-ID: <20000305.22590700@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003051311240.6257-100000@genisis.istar.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003051311240.6257-100000@genisis.istar.ca>
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I had a helluva time trying to set up my girlfriends HP Pavilion with
RedHat 6.1 (XFree86). The problem which couldn't be fixed in Windoze
is almost gone. I had a problem with it on Fri. and rebooted outta
frustration. Rebooting fixed it but there is one
problem I haven't been able to tackle, which is a xterm problem. I get
no echo. Just blank spaces. Actually I don't even get the prompt, but
there is a flashing cursor.
Ok.
Where this fits in: I had the White square problem and many others. I
managed to fix it with XF86Config and here is a copy of the entries
pertaining to the video out:
Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS"
VendorName "SiS"
BoardName "5988"
#VideoRam 1024
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
#
**********************************************************************
# Screen sections
#
**********************************************************************
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device "Generic VGA"
Device "SiS"
Monitor "SiS01"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
# Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
# Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The 16-color VGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga16"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "SiS01"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The Mono server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga2"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "SiS01"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "SiS"
Monitor "SiS01"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
I normally edit the config file directly.
I hope this will save someone the time it took me to "trial-and-error"
it.
John
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/5/00, 2:48:43 PM, Dru <genisis@istar.ca> wrote regarding Re: SiS
6326:
> I have one of these cards, and had a helluva time getting it to work;
I
> even read the doc for this card (usually stubborn trial and error lets
me
> build with other cards). To quote:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS
> "The generic VGA driver doesn't work with 6326, so XF86Setup can't be
used
> for this card. Please use XF86Config instead."
> Then there's other disclaimers for problems with snow, black screens,
etc.
> I used XF86Config to create a useable X GUI (running Windowmaker) with
> this incantation:
> SVGA at 800x600 and 8bpp
> However, when I start it up, I have an irritating 1 inch square of
white
> where the cursor should be. The first time I right click, I get a
cursor,
> but my blue wallpaper turns white; other than that, works great ;)
> If you come up with a better recipe, let me know.
> Dru
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jim Conner wrote:
> > I've had the very same problem but Im using a P180MMX 128Mb. But its
> > true...nothing even gets logged and the only way to recover is to
reset the
> > machine at the switch. Im interested to see if anyone has some fixes
for
> > this. Im even using the latest build (or at the one just before the
last
> > release...sorry can't be more specific than that.)
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > At 08:14 AM 3/5/00 +0200, Fawaz Talal wrote:
> > >Speacking of setting up my X:
> > >During installing FreeBSD 3.2-R, on AMD K6-II w/ 64MB Ram & IDE HDD +
ATAPI
> > >CD..
> > >When I try to configure XFree86 During installation, the machine
halts when it
> > >trys to start the configuration GUI, and nothing is working even
ALT-F<x>.
> > >
> > >Any idea ?
> > >
> > >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.
> > >
> > >Sincerely,
> > >Fawaz Talal
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