Sis 620 Chip

[legaviu]

Using "sis" driver in XF86Config. (Mandrake 7.2)

And when doing so under KDE one click on destop ... drag mouse... evertyhing underneath it BLACK!!!.

Tried different drivers, none of them work properly.

Searched linuxnewbie.org
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=do_search&seach_in=&search_forum=ALL&search_words=sis620&match_all=yes&search_date=ALL&search_user=&File=temp-2451971-0 63849-H27u.cgi&Total=1&StartAt=23

No luck

Went to http://xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30

It sais its supported.

Any help would be appreciatted.

Tnks

:confused:

[Kinjana]

legaviu

are you using 3.3.6 or 4.0? The support in 4.0.x is better than the 3.3.6 version.

I have a computer with a sis 6326 agp video on the mainboard. I've since added diamond viper pci card and am getting better results.

Prior to that however, I also had problems.

What I found was even though it's an "8" meg card (shared with system memory so not really) It would only display properly if the system was told 4 megs. I remember reading somewhere that you could set the sis driver up to four megs but not beyond.

Second, at higher resuloutions I would get the kind of display errors you're describing-- erasing trails from windows, a shaking of windows while i moved them etc...

Try toning it down to 800x600 with 256 colors and toning down the memory setting to no 4 meg max -- if this works, start upping each setting one at a time to test the limits of your system.

Hope this helps.

Kinj

[XxMaCaBrExX]

I think that the 620 is the same thing as the 6326 so try the driver for that one and see if it works. Also, I think there is a way to turn on "Software Mouse" mode or something like that, which might just do the trick. :)

[legaviu]

Tnks to both you, I shall try it... been working hard and haven't had the time to check the post .. will post the outcome. :)

[Duh]

i got my sis 6326 workiing flawlessly by doing this:
install XFree86 4.0.2
run the setup for it
either change to or choose 4 mb of video ram
and in the /etc/X11/XF86COnfig file make sure it says 4096 for ram, and then add "sw_cursor" as an option.
thats a very generic way of putting it, but i know you will find it.

[legaviu]

Tnks that worked nicely

[Kinjana]

So, what kind of resolution are you getting??

I've settled on 16 bit color at 1024x768

What's the "sw_cursor" setting anyway --?

Kinj