Re: SiS 5598 Video Chip / Mouse won't work...help!
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 00:10, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
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> Once upon a time Ron Johnson wrote @ 06 Jan 2003 14:19:13 -0600
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> > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:44, Jay wrote:
> > > Hello Listies!
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever messed with setting up either Gnome or KDE or X with a SiS
> > > 5598 video chipset?
> > >
> > > I'm having problems getting a readable output, can someone help me? Could it
> > > be that I'm using the wrong xserver? BTW I have an olde Shamrock 14"
> > > monitor.
> > >
> > > I tried installing Debian Woody 3 times already, messed with different
> > > settings, but that's it.
> > >
> > > Oh, and I can't get the mouse to work either.
> > >
> > > Thanks In Advanced!
> >
> > http://www.xfree.org/current/Status30.html#30
> >
> > According to that, the SiS 5598 chips are only supported under
> > XFree 3.3.6.
> >
> $ X -version
> XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System
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> $ lspci | grep VGA
> 00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA (rev 65)
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> using the sis driver it works fine
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> I can send you my XF86Config-4 !
Very interesting. Maybe you should send a Documentation Bug
email to the xfree people...
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