RE: SiS 900 not loading

2003-01-31 Thread Nigel Simpson
Doug wrote: > Strange... I wonder why they work on my RH8 - 2.4.18-19.8.0. > I'm pretty new to linux, but I was able to follow nVidia's > documentation and compile then install the kernel and glx > (-4191.tar.gz). > Made a huge difference on my machine. I didn't realize that I could rebuild the

RE: SiS 900 not loading

2003-01-30 Thread Doug Brucks
At 10:43 PM 1/29/2003 -0800, you wrote: Thanks, Leo, Now, if I could just get the refresh rate on my nVidia GeForce4 up from 60hz ! Card Nice. Flicker Bad. Unfortunately nVidia's latest drivers don't support 2.4.18-19.8.0 yet - grrr... Nigel Strange... I wonder why they work on my RH8 - 2.4.

RE: SiS 900 not loading

2003-01-29 Thread Nigel Simpson
Thanks, Leo, I just discovered the solution to getting the SiS 900 ethernet adapter to load with RedHat 8.0: set PNP BIOS to False in the system's BIOS. The hint was that kudzu was hanging at boot and I should have suspected a BIOS problem at that point. Instead I went down the path of disabling k

RE: SiS 900 not loading

2003-01-29 Thread Redhat
I have a Redhat 8.0 server running on a systems with an onboard SiS 900 adapter. During the installation of the systems, Redhat 8.0 had no problem detecting the adapter and enabling it. What I have had problems with is the adapter shutting down for no apparent reason. For that reason, I am going