On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:31:45AM -0800, John Chandler wrote: >David Dawes writes: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:04:16AM -0800, John Chandler wrote: > > >David Dawes writes: > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:01:13AM -0800, John Chandler wrote: > > > > >Thank you very much for your response. What you suggest had an > > > > >effect, but not an entirely good one... > > > > > > > > > >David Dawes writes: > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:27:54PM -0800, John Chandler wrote: > > > > > > >When I my newly-installed RedHat system launches, X fails with > > > > > > >this message: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:08:0 > > > > > > > (WW) TRIDENT: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found > > > > > > > (EE) No devices detected. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > > > > > no screens found > > > > > > > > > > > > >(--) PCI:*(0:8:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter rev 144, Mem @ 0xd0000000/27, 0xe0000000/17, I/O @ 0xdc00/7 > > > > > > >(--) PCI: (1:0:0) Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 rev 106, Mem @ 0xdd800000/23, 0xde000000/17, 0xdd000000/23 > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > Well, the primary card is the one that you get the BIOS boot messages > > on, and which Linux boots on. Since your monitor is plugged into > > the add-in PCI card, it's almost certain that it is the SiS card. > > So that's the driver you need to be using. The VideoRam lines > > usually should be commented out, so don't worry about that. I'm > > not up on which SiS cards are supported by the 4.3 sis driver, but > > since Thomas is following this thread, I'm sure he can help with > > that. > > > > Have you tried modifying your XFree86 4.x config to use the "sis" driver > > instead of the "trident" driver? > >Do I have to do anything besides change "Trident" to "SiS"? E.g., do >I need to specify a Busid? If you change the line Driver "trident" to Driver "sis" that should do it. Also, remove any Busid line you might have added. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
