DOA XWIN after installfest.

Troy Engel tengel at sonic.net
Sat Jan 6 12:15:49 PST 2001


Lorie Obal wrote:
> 
> the new card is I/O Magic 8 mb 2d/3d PCI graphics accelerator with the
> driver listed as SIS 6326. Had to replace - see below.

Okie doke, the cardlist (http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html) shows the
SVGA driver being the one to use. Type:

ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86*

Do you see 'XF86_SVGA' in the resulting output?  If you do, skip this
next paragraph.

You need the binary file for your card installed, which is easy as pie
assuming all the other "X" stuff is already there.  Since you don't have
the CDROM, you'll need to FTP:

  ncftp ftp.valinux.com
  cd /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS
  get XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-20.i386.rpm
  bye

..and install this file (as root): rpm -Uhv
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-20.i386.rpm

Now that you've got the proper binary file installed, run the command
"Xconfigurator" -- it will ask you for the video (Choose SiS, of
course), and then your monitor (be careful to specify the right one). 
It will also ask you a few more questions about chipsets and clock
settings -- accept the defaults.  On the resolutions question, be sure
to choose one(s) that both your video and monitor can do.

In theory, at that point, it should all work -- it'll ask you if you
want to test it all out, etc.  The mouse will be handled internally,
it's rare that Xconfigurator gets that part wrong.

-te

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