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compile in agpart if that card is AGP (if you do, also compile in the driver for your motherboard (note: not the video card, but the chipset the AGP bus is on ... (read your motherboards docs))
then compile in DRI, and select your video card for there
then all that should be needed is a reconfig of X (unless its already properly setup)
edit: oops, those kernel compile in options are under Device Drivers->Graphics ... or was it some other suboption? .. (keep an eye out if its not there)
then you might check /var/log/X.org.log for any errors or warnings ... i have a ati rage pro turbo 8mb 2x and i get around 100fps, although most of the users with a similar card report around 250+ fps ... so, for a sis300 32mb 4x [am i right?], 100+ fps is a bit slow .. but, as i told you, you can see that these things change for one system to another without any logical behind it, there are a lot of cases like this ... kind of unstable stuff :P and you can still go to the mailing list in dri.sf.net to try some help ... bye
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