So,

TX pro II/video inside is supposedly a SIS5597/8 rip. After a bit of hunting
I find..

http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml

This is THE man, but I wouldn't want to bother him. I get the impression
that dealing with this shit is shit.

He says

There are currently five groups of SiS graphics controllers:
The old series (SiS 5597/5598, 6326/AGP/DVD, 530, 620),
the 300 series (SiS 300/305, 540, 630/S/ST, 730/S),
the 315 series (SiS 315/E/PRO, 550, [M]650, 651, 740, [M]661[FMG]X, [M]74
[GX]),
the 330 series (SiS 330 "Xabre", [M]760[GX], [M]761[GX]), and
the 340 series (XGI V3XT, V5, V8, Z7; SiS342 - yet to be released).
(Even older chipsets than the ones mentioned are not and will not be
supported.)
Knowing what chipset your machine has is a Good Thing(tm) as they differ
heavily in supported features.
The controllers within these groups are (more or less) compatible to each
other. Chips with numbers > 3xx (except the 6326) are integrated chipsets
which also contain a PCI/AGP/ISA bridge, sometimes a memory controller and
a lot of other stuff. The SiS 550 is somewhat special; this one is a
complete one-chip computer ("system on chip" = SOC), even including an x86
compatible CPU, but lacking a 3D engine.

So it looks like, although it is old, the SIS5597/8 might still have the AGP
bridge in it.... maybe. Somewhere else talks about versions of X86 and one
seems to support the SIS5597/8 but the other one doesn't, or something like
that.... so perhaps I need to install the right one.

Anyway, in menuconfig I get the option to load SIS framebuffer support and
include options for SIS300 and SIS 315/330 but there is no mention of
SIS5597/8. I assume it might default....

Let's face it I'm just pissing in the breeze.

I tried to up the shared RAM but 4MB is the limit via the bios. I reduced
the number of colours but that didn't help.

When it boots up a message goes by.

"modprobe can't locate module agpgart"

So, if it can't locate it it can't load it so it can't have it. However
dmesg dmesg still shows agpgart as saying no supported devices...

Anyway, I need to go make some bread wiv cheese erbs and on!ons in it.

Cheers

DNA

Genome wrote:
> So,
....
> When it boots up a message goes by.
>
> "modprobe can't locate module agpgart"

Your own kernel, or..? Do you have GART configured in the kernel?
I have no experience with S3, but like Nvidia, the driver may come with
it's own GART, in which case the kernel one shouldn't be used.
If driver rely on kernel GART, it's preferred to have it in the kernel.

find /lib/modules/ -name "*agpgart.ko"
should reveal one if it's compiled or installed.
If so, try insmod it with full path.

Dunno if the VIA/S3 drivers, downloadable from via.com.tw for some of
their products, can be used. Tried it?

I'm a Bit interested, because I may have a go for a lowposer thingy
based on a Shuttle SK21G, with some onboard S3 Unichrome flavour.

--
Kind regards,
Mogens V.

Mogens V. wrote:
> Genome wrote:
>
>> So,
>
> ...
>
>> When it boots up a message goes by.
>>
>> "modprobe can't locate module agpgart"
>
>
> Your own kernel, or..? Do you have GART configured in the kernel?
> I have no experience with S3, but like Nvidia, the driver may come with
> it's own GART, in which case the kernel one shouldn't be used.
> If driver rely on kernel GART, it's preferred to have it in the kernel.
>
> find /lib/modules/ -name "*agpgart.ko"
> should reveal one if it's compiled or installed.
> If so, try insmod it with full path.
>
> Dunno if the VIA/S3 drivers, downloadable from via.com.tw for some of
> their products, can be used. Tried it?

Arrgh F..., can't even read. Took SiS for S3, geez, gimme a BreakPoint.
Anyways, the GART stuff may still be of use

--
Kind regards,
Mogens V.

Genome <ilike_spam@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
newsFOAf.15728$0N1.7547@newsfe5-win.ntli.net:

> So,
>
> TX pro II/video inside is supposedly a SIS5597/8 rip. After a bit of
> hunting I find..
>

I have an M571 motherboard with an SIS agp onboard video solution. I
get (via dmesg):
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS5597 ATA 33 controller

I get pretty good graphics from it; I forget the exact bios setting.

As I remember, I downloaded something from somewhere on the net to
aid in configuring this for X. Is there anything I can send?
Slack 9.1, btw...

"james" <mentor@arisia.org> wrote in message
news:Xns9756E716FE638xxregularguy62xx@70.168.83.30 ...
> Genome <ilike_spam@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> newsFOAf.15728$0N1.7547@newsfe5-win.ntli.net:
>
> > So,
> >
> > TX pro II/video inside is supposedly a SIS5597/8 rip. After a bit of
> > hunting I find..
> >
>
> I have an M571 motherboard with an SIS agp onboard video solution. I
> get (via dmesg):
> SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1
> SIS5513: chipset revision 208
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> SIS5513: SiS5597 ATA 33 controller
>
> I get pretty good graphics from it; I forget the exact bios setting.
>
> As I remember, I downloaded something from somewhere on the net to
> aid in configuring this for X. Is there anything I can send?
> Slack 9.1, btw...

I have got one of those too and it says it's not one hundred percent native
and a bit of probing will go on later as well. I think it has something to
do with the drive things rather than the display of porn but obviously
getting the porn off the hard one at maximum possible speed is important so
it must be good that it gets probed later.

I'm not sure about this downloading stuff of the interwank. It told me I had
a CIM8330(?) audio thing so, although I knew I had a Soundpro 1897, I
downloaded and installed a Linux thing for a CIM8330(?). It went and tested
stuff and seemed to think it worked but X still says it can't locate some
dsp file. I can see a gazillion dsp files so I think X must be thick or
something.

Sigh

DNA