Re: X on SIS Ultra256

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/08/05

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    On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:00:50 -0700, ray staggered into the Black Sun and
    said:
    > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:31:08 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:
    >> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:57:16 -0700, ray wrote:
    >>> I'm looking at a laptop sold by WalMart (the other evil empire).
    >> If you think they're evil, why are you considering buying stuff from
    >> them?
    > I don't feel like paying $700 or up for a laptop, and the ones from WM
    > are about all I'm finding under $600.

    In 2000, I bought a refurbished P150, 32M, 2G, 800x600 laptop for $700.
    Just sayin'. And the phrase "you get what you pay for" typically
    applies to computer hardware. I'd suggest that you go to pricewatch.com
    and check their "refurbished" or "not exactly new" section, but they
    seem to have removed that. @#$%^.

    >>> IC Power 15" with AMD Sempron 2600+ for $568. It lists [its]
    >>> graphics [card] as [an] SIS Ultra256 - so is [this] thing supported?
    >> "Ultra256" isn't a chipset name that's in "man sis" for Xorg 6.8.2.

    The other guy who posted had some good advice about another place to
    look for SiS chip support. I wouldn't trust SiS graphics chips, myself,
    because their X support lags behind ATi/nVidia, and 3D is a pain or
    nonexistent. The advice about using VESA is guaranteed to piss you off
    if you do anything more complex than running a few xterms. VESA is
    practically unaccelerated, and it really shows if you play games or
    watch movies on a VESA X server.

    >> If this machine has a make and model# ("IC" isn't listed; did you
    >> mean "IPC"?), you can look it up on http://tuxmobil.org/ or
    > Been to the obvious sources, and couldn't find anything.

    To me, this would be a big "WARNING!" sign. If you have plenty of spare
    time, you can try to find out where the bugs and hardware glitches are
    in this machine. If you don't have plenty of spare time, or you think
    your spare time is worth more than $X/hour, spend a little more and buy
    something that has a good installation report somewhere. 

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