SiS 760GX mother board

David Teague davidbteague at verizon.net
Sat Aug 20 01:35:42 UTC 2005


I recently acquired a SiS 760GX motherboard and
Sempron processor with 1 GB RAM. The system
boots the Ubuntu live CD.

If I tell the live CD system that the video is SiS, it
will load  Open Office then freeze. I can then do
nothing but reboot. If I tell it VESA it works, but
none of the features of the card can be used.

I hear that SiS recently merged with the Trident.
>From what I read this company treats its products
as proprietary and refuse to release any information
to driver writers to the X-Free driver writers.

Here is a description of this Mother Board from
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2618&sort=8&cat=all&page=1
(watch for wrapped URL)

            Description:  Comes with onboard graphic lan audio usb for a
very low price

            Like the 755-A2 motherboard, the 760GX-M uses AGP with the AMD
Socket 754 for Sempron and Athlon 64 CPUs. The only major difference between
the two boards being the micro ATX form factor and the *SiS onboard
graphics* on the 760.

            The main question here is wether the onboard Mirage 2 graphic
controller is compatible with Linux ?
            Here some related information:

            -
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146653&highlight=sis
760


            - Thomas Winischhofer - X.org/XFree86/Linux and SiS graphics
chipset : http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml


            - http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050415/index.html
            Keywords:  MicroATX, SiS 760GX, integrated graphic, Realtek
ALC658
            /sbin/lspci output:
            Chipset:  SiS 760GX
            Connection Type:  ATA (x2), Serial ATA (x2), PS/2 (x2), serial,
parallel, 8 USB (4+4), LAN, audio 5+1


 Quoting Winischhofer's website regarding his driver:
"There is no DRI/OpenGL (hardware accelerated 3D) support for the SiS
315/65x/74x/66x/760." 2D should work fine however.

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

What seems to be the one redeeming feature of this mobo
is that I can use an AGP card for which Linux drivers exist.

I'd like some remarks from people actually using this board.

David
--
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is
being run by smart people who are putting
us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
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Clearly, it's the imbeciles. And they really mean it.
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