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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:05:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
To:        Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au>
Cc:        Haydar <haydar@worldonline.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sis5597/5598
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811272204270.773-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9811281136390.6023-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>

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On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Iain Templeton wrote:

> Sigh, maybe there will be better support for the SiS cards in the next
> major release (4.0), but they don't even know when that will be coming out
> yet. Plus I suppose they need some enterprising soul to write the driver.

Why wait for 4.0?  3.3.3 lists support for them.

>From http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3/SiS2.html#2

2. Supported chips 

SiS 86c201

     (External hardware clock)

SiS 86c202, SiS 86c2x5, SiS 5597/5598, SiS 6326

     (Internal clock synthesizer)

Color expansion is not supported by the engine in 16M-color
graphic mode.

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