Very Computer

Hello-
  I recently installed RedHat 5.2 on my home box, and i seem to be having
problems getting XFree86 to work. I have an on-motherboard Sis 5597/5598
chipset, and I've selected the SVGA server to XFree86 (as recommended). I
type "startx", then (after cycling very fastly through a few startup
messages) my screen shows many vertical black and white lines, then switches
to a full bright blue screen. I end up having to "ctrl+alt+backspace" my way
out of the server back into the linux kernal. I have the latest drivers for
the Sis 5597/5598 chipset, and i'm using a Acer 33s monitor.
  Any help/comments/etc whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
butler davis

(remove the SPAMGUARD to reply)

[Posted and mailed]

Quote:>   I recently installed RedHat 5.2 on my home box, and i seem to be having
> problems getting XFree86 to work. I have an on-motherboard Sis 5597/5598
> chipset, and I've selected the SVGA server to XFree86 (as recommended). I
> type "startx", then (after cycling very fastly through a few startup
> messages) my screen shows many vertical black and white lines, then switches
> to a full bright blue screen. I end up having to "ctrl+alt+backspace" my way
> out of the server back into the linux kernal. I have the latest drivers for
> the Sis 5597/5598 chipset, and i'm using a Acer 33s monitor.
>   Any help/comments/etc whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

OK, did exactly this same config today (SiS5597 + Acerview33).
You need the XFree86-aaa-3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm (where aaa = files required)
and Xconfigurator-3.89-1.i386.rpm (see www.XFree86.org for step by
step instructions to upgrade).

After update and running Xconfigurator you will have to edit the
/etc/X11/XF86Config and remove the # in front of #VideoRam 4096 line.
By the way, DON'T do a autoprobe, but manually set the video memory size
and colour depth. Otherwise most likely XF will only see 256k other than
the 4Mb or so you BIOS set your SiS to use. Select only 16bit colour depth
as 24 / 32 has problem presently.

Cheers, Grahame.

--
----------------------------------------------
Anti-Spamming Enabled in FQDN.
Email: gmkelly (at) zip (dot) com (dot) au
Sydney Linux User Group - Member
http://www.slug.org.au
----------------------------------------------