Dear Randy:
Thanks for your kind words. Wish I could help you with your specific
quesitons. But I am just a newbie. Hope someone on the list is qualified to
answer them.
Thanks again.
Benjamin
On Sunday 08 April 2001 17:13, you wrote:
> Benjamin,
>
> Thanks for your efforts and persistence in sorting this out.
>
> I have some questions that you or someone else might be able to answer:
>
> 1. Will the rpms install / work with XFree86.3.x.x? (It looks like the
> files you listed include only XFree86-4.0.3. One of my machines will
> only work with XFree86-3.x.x because it has an SiS 5597 video chipset on
> board.)
>
> 2. I upgraded one of my Mandrake 7.2 installations to kde 2.1. There
> are some problems -- it does not work 100% correctly. Do you think I
> can use the rpms to upgrade from my current installation to kde 2.1.1,
> or should I make a "clean" reinstallation of Mandrake 7.2 and start from
> there?
>
> Aside: There has been some speculation that the XFree86-4.0.3 drivers
> for SiS will work with the SiS 5597. Can anybody actually confirm
> this? (If there is misinformation, I contributed to it -- I asked on
> the XFree mailing list about SiS 5597 drivers for 4.0.3. Someone
> responded saying they believed the 4.0.3 driver worked for the SiS 5597
> because there were multiple references to the SiS 5597 in the driver
> source code. I don't believe that person actually tried it, and I never
> actually tried it, but I passed the same information to someone else (on
> the cooker list IIRC). Sorry, my mistake!
>
> Thanks,
> Randy Kramer
>
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