[wellylug] RE: Help with X

[Brent Wood]

--- Peter Dawson <peter_dawson at eagle.co.nz> wrote:
> >Quoting Peter Dawson <peter_dawson at eagle.co.nz>:
> >
> >> I have recently convinced my son to ditch W98 and go with Debian,
> >> however we seemed to have booboo-ed in the install as his mouse is
> >> playing up and we aren't sure that we have X correctly configured for
> >> his video card.

> The mouse is a Gigabyte Optical Wheel mouse and was on USB at the time of
> install (and the installer didn't give the choice of USB, only PS/2 &
> Serial), and has since been moved to PS/2 with no discernable effect.

You may need to tell Debian about this if it doesn't autodetect. (I'm not a
Debian user)

> 
> The video card is a Pine AGP SiS 315 32Mb Graphics Card, chipset uncertain to
> my knowledge. We took the proffered Nvidia option.

The chipset is SiS 315.

Nvidia != SiS. That is never gonna work. You should have an option, if the SiS
chipset is supported at all, for an SiS 300 or 3xx chipset. The other
possibility is that the card is PCI not AGP (Pine make both) and later versions
of X (at least in my experience) don't like PCI much, but are fine with AGP.

Or plug a cheap Nvidia card in there instead :-) 



Brent