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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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LinuxCare,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">http://www.linuxcare.com/</A>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>re: the answer guy</H3>
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<p><strong>From hazmouz on Thu, 21 Sep 2000
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can you please help me to find the driver for linux or linuxlike of the
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SIS 6326 graphic card
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<br>thanks a lot
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PS: excuse me for this sudden intrusion in your life
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<p><em>...and...</em></p>
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>Vorrei ricevere i driver d'installazione per SIS 6326</H3>
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<p><strong>From Cataldo Pellegrino on Mon, 28 Aug 2000
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<p><em>Now as it turns out, none of the usual Gang answered, but it
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had been discussed aboard my Star Trek shuttle mailing list
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a few months ago...</em></p>
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>Beware the SiS 6326!</H3>
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<p align="right">Answered by: The Armadillo with the Mask</p>
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<dt>Politely:
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<dd>It's a real bother to get working under XFree86.
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<dt>Frankly:
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<dd>[ Hey, we can't print that sort of punctuated language here!
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not without entities anyway. ]... #$@%!!!!!!!
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In fact, if you have this or a derivative card, don't even try. Go out
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immediately and get Xfree86 4.0. This is not a matter of compatibility
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it is a matter that it just doesn't work at all under anything but.
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You need at least 3.3.6 to get even faltering support let alone anything
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that actually works.
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<p><em>Seeing as 3.3.6 is still the current version, it's probably still
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the case. Feel free to build it yourself from the source repository
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if you feel up to it, but, then you may as well try the new version
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instead and get real support. -- Heather</em></p>
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So what is it?---A very popular chipset on the low-end $30-50 SVGA
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card market. I've got one in komodo for preciselyt that reason.
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When I first put the machine together, I just needed a card that would
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allow me to stand the box until I could put it on a TTY and decide what I
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wanted to do for a real card/monitor combo. As such I never tried to
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bring X up on it. They are in a number of the testbed boxen at [my work]
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for similar reasons.
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I kept running into the same problem. I could run '<tt>startx</tt>' by hand, but
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whenever I ran <TT>/etc/init.d/xdm</TT> start, '<tt>parse_xf86config</tt>' would complain
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that there was an error in the XF86Config in <TT>/etc/X11</TT> and refuse to start
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xdm. First, I noticed that the variable PROBLEM in <TT>/etc/init.d/xdm</TT> is
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automatically set to "yes" with the intent that if the <tt>parse_xf86config</tt>
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went well, PROBLEM would get set to null and all would be well.
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It turns out this never happens and even when the output of
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<tt>parse_xf86config</tt> is clean, PROBLEM doesn't get reset.
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I was having other problems too. The screen interlaced horribly and
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occasionally blanked out and then came back. The cursor was a big huge
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blob. I was really just about to toss the card across the room.
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A final search on RedHat under "all Linux sites" turned up the answer.
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If you add the following under XF86Config, it works.
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<blockquote><pre>Option no_bitblt
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Option no_imageblt
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Option no_accel
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Option sw_cursor
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This also fixed the issue I was having with PROBLEM in <TT>/etc/init.d/xdm</TT>
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which is the REALLY bizarre part. From all appearances, it looks like
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<tt>parse_xf86config</tt> is not only doing a syntactical check on the
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config file
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but that it is also checking to see if the options that you are specifying
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actually WORK on the card or if it's going to cause trouble.
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I have the exact same <TT>/etc/init.d/xdm</TT> script on chameleon, which
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is also
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running debian and it runs without a hitch(it is however, using the vastly
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more ubiquitous C&T 65550 chipset)
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<BLOCKQUOTE><dl>
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<dt>Moral of the story:
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<dd>Avoid cheapy video cards and when you can't or REALLY don't want to,
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avoid the SiS 6326. Dropping an extra $50 is far more worth your time.
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Also, startup scripts aren't infallible. I'm still wondering if there are
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maybe some bugs in the <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A>
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<TT>/bin/sh</TT> that was causing the evaluation
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problems with <TT>/etc/init.d/xdm</TT> I was seeing.
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<p><em>
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Note: Probably resolved if you stay on <strong>Potato</strong>;
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he was looking at Debian/frozen in mid July, and it didn't release until
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mid August. -- Heather
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"That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!"
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'dillo
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>Copyright ©</a> 2000, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in the <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 58 October 2000</H5>
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