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From: JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:58:16
Message-Id: 20060324185009.3b78c71e@keelie.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static by Michael Sullivan
1 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:39:55 -0600
2 Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
5 > 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA])
6 > Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13
7 > Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 10
8 > BIST result: 00
9 > Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
10 > Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
11 > I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
12 > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
13 > Capabilities: [50] AGP version 3.0
14 >
15 >
16 > But how can I tell what driver I need from this output?
17
18 You have some type of SiS VGA card, can you replace it with an NVidia?
19
20 Try using the driver "sis" in your xorg.conf file.
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22 You can go here to read about the driver:
23 http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml
24
25 Jim
26 http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/SiS1.html
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