[aclug-L] Re: XFree86-4.0 problems

["Dan Hull" <hulldb67@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had the exact same problem with the boards I had with SIS chips.  I had 
started to think it was my AMD chip at first, because it installed fine on 
both my Intel and Cyrix chipped boards, only to find that both of those 
boards had Via Apollo chipsets.
SIS is a good chip, but doesn't like linux very well.  Only certain chipsets 
by SIS are compatible and work well.
> From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: XFree86-4.0 problems
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:13:48 -0600
>
> I had so many problems with it and my sis chips on my mother board, I gave 
> up
> and re-installed red hat 6.0!  I kept getting black spaces everywhere the
> letters went!  Not the proper solution, but it worked for me.  But I have
> gotten several comptuers at work to run fine on it.  It just really hates 
> sis
> chips!!  I am not sure if it is the accelerator, or the svga driver.
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > does anyone have the latest version (4.0) of XFree86 up and running
> > successfully?  i've tried, but to no avail...  everything looks right 
> and
> > is configured, but on boot, it hangs when it starts the X Font Server.  
> It
> > just never gets past it.  I was up until 6am this morning working on 
> that
> > damn thing, and when i woke up this morning, it was still setting at the
> > boot screen on the xfs startup.  X will run fine w/o xfs, but i have no
> > fonts (or rather, very few)...
> >
> > ideas???  i'm missing my WindowMaker! : ^ )
> >
> > jesse
> >
> >           <<< Jesse Kaufman (kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >>>
> >
> >
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> Michael A. Holmes
>
> You have not failed until you give up!
>
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