On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:50:50PM +0200, Adam Galant wrote: > Hi. > > Does anybody know how to make xserver-xfree86 work with RAM>4096 on SiS > cards? I read in README that sis driver can only address <=4096 RAM which > gives you at most 1152x864 @ 24bpp (or 1024x768 @ 24bpp - I can't > recall). I switched to vesa driver for which higher modes work, but a > number of applications have problems, even segfaults occur (why???). > > On the other hand, 16bpp modes (which can give you 1280x1024 with 4096 > RAM) make my xawtv useless - black screen - no TV, no fun :-( 16 bpp is no > fun anyway ;-) > > Did anybody try the patch to XFree 4.0 from SiS? Does this help? > > Perhaps there are any other solutions better than using old SVGA server > from 3.6 packages? Google for "winischhofer sis" - should find you pages by Thomas Winischhofer with lots of stuff about SiS drivers for X. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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