Help with screen artifacts after MB upgrade.
My MB died due to a flaky power supply fan. I ordered a new MB and CPU
from E-Bay. I was expecting an identical MB to what I had (which would
mean no driver changes). Unfortunatly, the CPU which was advertised
does not actually run on the old PC-CHIPS board that I had. The seller
provided me with the advertised CPU on a newer board that does support
it. I now get occaisional artifacts remaining on screen when windows
are moved around. Not always, just every now and then. I am guessing
that I need to change something in my XF86Config-4 file, probably the
driver in the Device section. Can anybody help me.
From PC-Chips web site:
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OLD MB: PC-CHIPS M863G
Chipset: SiS 741GX/964L
VGA: Embedded Real256E 3D Graphics with 64M share memory
NEW MB: PC-CHIPS M871G
Chipset: SiS 760GX/964
VGA: Embedded Ultra256 3D Graphics with 64M share memory
Embedded Mirage 2 Graphics with 128MB share memory
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From my XF86Config-4 file:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS 630"
Driver "sis"
EndSection
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The Identifier, while not accurate, doesn't really matter, but should
the driver be changed? If so, to what? I tried googling for the VGA
info and linux drivers, but got nothing useful. Can anyone point me to
the correct info for this?
--
Marc Shapiro
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