[NCLUG] Mandrake and graphics card

[Jim Ankrum]

sis 730 is an onboard video card. try plugging your
monitor into the onboard video port to see if it
starts working.

Jim


--- Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet <ADDRESS_REMOVED_BY_REQUEST> wrote:
> thanks to the post about how-to's, 
> HOWEVER, it didn't work.!!  and i got something 
> maybe someone can help me with.
> so, ran through the ATI Radeon how-to by gracar,
> ran fglrxconfig, seemed to work, no error messages
> that i could tell,
> but no x, even on a restart.
> so read through the second one,
> (based for suse)
> did the modprobe fglrx and lsmod | fglrx 
> and all ok
> BUT when I did modprobe agpgart, 
> this is what i got
> 
> modprobe agpgart
> agpgart: Unsupported SiS chipset (device id: 0730),
> you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
>
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz:
> init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect
> module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters
>
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz:
> insmod
>
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz
> failed
>
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz:
> insmod agpgart failed
> 
> 
> so, do i need a new motherboard? 
> do i need different software?
> do i need a different graphics card?
> should i just buy a mac with os10! =-p
> 
> thanks for all your help, 
> -lost and confuzzled
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