tlug: Re: forwarded message from Sean Bennett

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@example.com>]

 > I'm just setting up a new unix box with an ASUS SP97-V motherboard.  The
 > board has a basic onboard vga chip - SiS 5598, which is not currently
 > supported by XFree86 (most likely not until the next revision, according
 > to the man pages).
 > 
 > Has anybode else set up XFree86 on one of these boards?  I've tried the
 > basic 'Unsupported VGA chipset', but to no avail.  Is there another
 > comparable chipset whose driver will work with the 5598 that anyone
 > knows about? Suggestions??

There are some alpha drivers at http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/index.html#sis
I tried them on an ASUS SP97-XV.
They work (very unstable) with low resolutions.
Most of the higher resolutions produce no signal at all.
So, they are not really usable yet. But I guess this is the first place 
where newer drivers will show up.

Ralph

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Ralph Metzler                                         rjkm@example.com 
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Cologne, Germany
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