----- Original Message ----- From: "Ossie Guy" <ossieguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: [XFree86] startx hangs - SiS 740 > Brand new Cybertron machine, installed Mandrake 9.2, everything works great > so far except X - startx produces a blank screen and hangs there. Tried the > new Mandrake XFree86-4.3-24mdk rpm compiled Oct. 7 and also tried the > precompiled sis_drv.o from winischhofer.net. Same result each time, just a > black screen, no errors that I can see. I have to Alt-F1 to get my shell > back. Any ideas? > > Motherboard: M810D > Chipset: SiS740 (and SiS962L) > I think your problem may be that you used the "precompiled driver". If I remember Winischhofer's instructions, the precompiled drivers are very specific as to the version of X they were built for, and the gcc version used for the build. Since you have a brand new Mandrake release, I suspect that the prebuilt driver may not work. Download the driver source, and then download XFree86 source for the version that comes w/Mandrake. Follow Winischhofer's directions which worked fine for me. Use the newly built driver generated by this procedure rather than the precompiled one. Regards, Jeff S _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
