SiS 620 Integrated Graphics ??

[MadHattr]

I installed mandrake 9.0 on my friends computer and all and he has a compaq computer with an sis Silicon Integrated Systems [siS] SiS 620 driver sis but basicaly glx works and shit and it apears that the drivers are isntalled correctly but the 3d acceleration isnt workign and glx gears runs at like 40 fps do you know what might be wrong i already removed dbe from my xfree86config-4 file and all but im not sure how to fix this problem ? and or whats wrong with it

[DragonMage]

Have you tried going to sis homepage and download their own version of the driver. The one I saw in there is dated 11/14/2002 which is much newer than the version mandrake or XFree 4.2.1 put in mandrake distro. Who knows, maybe it is 3d accelerated, too.

 

http://download.sis.com/sisdlc/driver_select.jsp

[Guest ndeb]

I tried accessing http://download.sis.com/sisdlc/driver_select.jsp . It does not load in konqueror (kde3.1rc5) and times out in netscape. Anyway, sis binary driver support for linux is a joke (much worse than nvidia and ati). If u want a good driver, try the open-source one (very active development) from Thomas' site:

http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml

 

Note that the stock XFree86-4.2.1 driver has no support for 3d because DRI ( http://dri.sourceforge.net ) does not support SiS (blame SiS since they don't release specs, just like nvidia). The command xvinfo will tell if xvideo (2d hardware acceleration) is enabled (most likely not but u could get lucky).