----- 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.
Hm. Did I perhaps get a crippled message? The Log the original poster attached ends like this:
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
The sis driver wasn't even loaded at that time...
Thomas
-- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org
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