On Wednesday 18 June 2003 18:59, Charles Roberts wrote:Thanks for the reply David. I am willing to try Thomas Winishoffer's drivers, but a search in google on his name didnot show any hits. Where does one get his drivers?
Hello all: I am trying to get Debian running. The sequence of events: 1. installed 'woody' from floppy disks with the bf2.4 (what ever that stands for) images (I wanted to use reiserfs). The install when OK. Got a basic 'cli' Debian system. 2. Did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to 'sarge'. All when OK. 3. Used aptitude to install X11. I configured XFree86 OK. 4. This same machine is also running Mandrake, so I know the video works. 5. Issued a 'startx' command. X came up but with the wrong resolution. I looked in /var/log/XFree86 log and found that the driver 'sis' failed to load. 6. From a cli I issued 'modprobe sis'. Got an error saying 'could not find kernel the module was compiled for'. 7. Upgraded the kernel 'with dselect' to 2.4.20-1-k6. 8. Did another 'modprobe sis'. Got error "/lib/modules/2.4.20-1-k6/kernel drivers/video/sis/sisfb.o: init_module: no such device". Also got 'insmod sis failed'.
I am out of ideas of what to do next. Any help would be appricated.
Thanks Charles
Are you using Thomas Winishoffer's current drivers, or are you using the ones that come with XFree. Unless it is 4.3 the XFree drivers are seriously out of date, and his work so much better.
Regards
David
Charles
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