On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Purnendu Ghosh wrote:

can u find me a si 6215 driver for redhat 7.2 i need it badly for my office..plz try

I use Sis6215 and it is not easy to configure it. Note: There is no known driver available exclusively for Sis 6215

Try this: open /etc/XF86Config

Add following lines to it:

Section "Device" Identifier "Sis" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" VideoRam 1024 ChipSet "SIS86C205" EndSection

Now I assume that you have configured your monitor

Now add these lines to ur /etc/XF86Config

Section "Screen" Driver "svga" Device "Sis" Monitor "My Monitor" # Use the name of the monitor that appears in # the file. Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection

Ok now install the SVGA server:

#rpm -iv XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-42

the numbers depend upon the version.

Now symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/X to XF86_SVGA:

#cd /usr/X11R6/bin #ln -s XF86_SVGA X

set UID to the X server. Note: this may be risky, (security wise) but heck it works for me.

#chmod 6777 XF86_SVGA

Now $startx

Enjoy!!! :)