Corrupt SiS display on new debian
Hi!
I've just installed new debian system (kernel 2.6.18-6-486) on my computer and on the first boot on my debian, I got my display corrupted! What should I do? My video card is Code:
$ lspci | grep VGA Code:
~$ lsmod | grep sis Code:
$ dmesg | grep agp Thank you. |
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EDIT: Actually, I'm pretty sure you can't have it with what you have: Quote:
I have a 741, I can tell you that there is absolutely no advantage to the sis driver over vesa. |
Thank you again.
Yes, you are right. Vesa is a generic graphics driver and not optimised for my card therefore DRI uncapable. I cound solve this problem by reducing the resolution. I found the solution for the display corruption from the web site (http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart1.shtml#12) you offered me. It says: Quote:
It seems to be IMPOSSIBLE to enable DRI on my computer according to this article. I should have buy one with a dedicated local framebuffer memory! P.S. How did you find this web site? I'ts totally incredible if you found it easily. |
That is basically what I was telling you, the chipset is junk and a clear screen with vesa is the best you can hope for. DRI would be a pipe dream, even with the sis drivers.
I was very dissapointed a couple years ago when I learned my laptop had an SiS 741 chipset. Now if I am buying a laptop or anything with integrated graphics, I want nothing but Intel. Quote:
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thank you elliot.
Im gonna unsubscribe this thread and immediately go to the PC store. "Wintel" was not so bad as I thought. |
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