| Chris Schoonbee on Tue, 2 May 2000 21:01:45 +0200 |
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| Re: Trouble with SiS6326 AGP graphics card |
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I also have a SiS 6325 AGP card which gave me
problems initially. I managed to get it working on SuSE Linux 6.1in the
following way. This should work with Redhat as well I
guess.
In the installation I specified the card as a SVGA
i.e. installed the XF86 SVGA server. The installation program then set up
a XF86Config based on this. This XF86Config however then has to be
modified manually.
Here is the Device section from my
file.
#####################
Section "Device"
Identifier
"Primary-Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "SiS 6326 rev
11"
VideoRam 4096
# Option "sw_cursor"
# Option "no_accel"
# Option "no_linear"
# Option "no_imageblt"
Option "no_bitblt"
Option "fast_vram"
# dacspeed 135
EndSection
##########################
From my web search, the conservative advice that I
got was to set all of the above 'Option's. However I experimented with
various combinations and found that 'commenting-out' the indicated options above
didn't seem to have any adverse effect. You will note that I have
specified video RAM as 4MB although I have an 8MB card. This is necessary
if you want to use the hardware cursor rather than the software
cursor. This feature requires some of the RAM and if you allocate all 8MB
to video ram then the hardware cursor is automatically disabled. I
suppose I could specify 6 or 7 MB but I haven't bothered to do so
yet.
As I say, the card seems to be working fine but you
follow my advice at your own risk.
Good luck.
Chris
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