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Re: sis 6326



on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:11:09PM -0300, SuperTek (gdsuper@uol.com.br) wrote:
> Has anybody succeded to configure the sis 6326 video card using
> xfree86config on Debian 2.2 (potato)? I need help!!!

I've managed to get a decent, but not quite satisfactory, 800x600 16bpp
display using xf86config.  I'm shooting for 1024x768 16bpp @ 72Hz or
better, and am having trouble getting there.

Running XF86Setup vanilla results in a broken display immage (grey
screen, hitting arrow keyes results in a black bar of varying widths
appearing vertically on the screen.

On a hunch, I moved the XF86_VGA16 binary to a different location and
symlinked :

    $ ln -s XF86_SVGA XF86_VGA16

This results in a working display, though at a fallback internal 320x200
resolution -- too small to be able to read the 640x400 XF86Setup
dialogs.  This machine doesn't currently have a functioning mouse, so
it's not possible to pan through the display to reach various screen
componenets.

I've tried modifying the default Config-1 script that SF86Setup uses as
a configuration file for its configuration session, however I'm unable
to get the initial session to run at anything other than 320x200.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.



> I think I have to upgrade xfree86, so, does anybody have the newest
> sources.list?

I don't think this is an issue addressed by more recent versions of
XFree86, though I wish it were.

    $ apt-get update; echo y | apt-get dist-upgrade

...should do you:

For source lines:

    # apt package archives
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Note also that it was mentioned that issues with the SiS 6326 have been
raised several times recently on list.  I only find two hits since June,
2000, though list-archive search efficacy has been on the low side of
good in recent memory.

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