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I just got a high performance computer with a SIS 620 AGP video card and am trying to run Red Hat 6.0 X Windows. The video card is not listed, though other SIS video cards are, and it says not to choose what you think might be "close" to it. So I choose unlisted video cards, set X Windows for the correct monitor settings (monitor worked fine with X Windows on a Dell 486) I think I eliminated hardware defects by installing Windows 98 and getting a pretty GUI no problem with this very system after failing to bring up X Windows. When I start X Windows, I get the blue screen, then the blue screen becomes a small rectangle on the side and I get gray on the rest. In short, not seeing my video card. I have to power down to get out of this. I use the most conservative settings for video -- VGA16 640-480 and the correct vertical and horizontal sync for the monitor. I even tried monochrome X server. Like I said, I got X Windows running with this monitor on a 486 and this setup working with Windoze, so I think I've narrowed it down to getting Linux to recognize this SIS 620 AGP video card. I choose 8 meg of video RAM when it asks, and I know for a fact that it has this much video RAM. Any suggestions? Thanks. Rob Freeman - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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