Thanks. I think this is really a bit of a conundrum -- on my RH7.x
system, Trident is mentioned in the XFree86 config file, and SiS is
not. And on my RH9 system, running on the very same hardware, SiS is
mentioned, and Trident is not. Both configurations seem to cause X to
come up on the PCI video card. I haven't tried to max out the
resolution on either RH7 or RH9, but both seem to support 1400x1050.
I suspect this is impossible, and I must be failing to observe
something.
The crashing is the symptom I care more about, of course, and I will
take your advice about the SiS drivers. But in the future, I will
avoid like the plague motherboards with onboard video.
Thanks again.
-jmc
David Dawes writes:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:30:54AM -0800, John Chandler wrote:
[...]
> >Does anyone have an opinion as to whether the freezing I'm seeing
> >is an XFree86 issue or something else? Does RH9 do this a lot?
> >
> >I'd consider hardware deficiencies, but when I boot my old RH 7.x
> >on the exact same hardware (except different HD), it stays up for
> >days, vs. minutes w/RH9 and the new XFree86. Adjusting the
> >resolution to "pathetically low" doesn't fix it.
> >
> >Feel free to recommend that I have someone cut the traces to the
> >onboard video, replace my motherboard, install SUSE, etc. I
> >presume XFree86 is *the* X server at this point, but I'm even open
> >to changing that if you think it would be an option -- I am stuck
> >at RedHat 7.something until I get past this.
> >
> >Thanks, and I realize nobody's getting paid for the advice given
> >here.
>
> All I can suggest is that you try the latest sis driver. Thomas
> has a very comprehensive web site for his driver
> <http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml>. You can download
> driver updates from there too.
>
> I don't have any sis hardware and I'm not familiar with the driver
> myself, so there isn't much more I can add.
>
> David
> --
> David Dawes
> developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project
> www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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