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Hi I have a SiS 5598 onboard videocard on a ASUS SP97-V Mainboard and I need a driver for my video card in Redhat Linux 5.2. I understand that you can download Kernel 3.3.3.1 but that is heaps big (50mb) and I want to make sure I get the right thing. Could someone please help me!
Xfree86 is server software for Xwindow clients and 3.3.3.1 is a particular release. The kernel is Linux itself while Xfree86 is an app that runs on it, RedHat 5.2 uses 2.0 Linux kernel. You do not have to download every server for sis5598/5597 VGA with 256 was the last I knew. If you visit the RedHat site they may tell you which server you need. But standard VGA sould do it(support for that chipset just is not that good).You can try "http://www.xfree86.org/" for the the file should be somthing like VGA16.tar.gz
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I have an asus sp97-v mainboad with the sis5598 video chip. I got the linux mandrake 6.5 with the 2.2.13 kernel and xfree 3.3.5 and it will not even install because of the video problem. I am not sure I want to use linux when I start to see the limitations it has.
Owen Prince
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from SiS driver page (http://www.sis.com.tw/driver/driver.htm):
Linux
We don't provide drivers for Linux, but there are some third parties having developed Linux drivers for our chips. Thanks to their efforts, SiS's VGA chipset is based on the VESA 1.x and 2.x specification. So, you can use the VESA driver or the standard VGA driver provided by Linux/Unix to meet your needs. SiS doesn't support Linux/Unix driver, however we have passed datasheets of our products SiS5597/5598, SiS5596, SiS6205, SiS6201, SiS6202 to XFree86.org for their references. You may refer to this site: http://www.xfree86.org. S.u.S.E. releases a small series of X servers that are freely available to support SiS video Chipsets. These servers are available for no charge and are only for Linux based operating systems (Slackware, Redhat, S.u.S.E, Debian, etc.) The URL for this X server is http://www.suse.de/XSuSE. You can see:
SiS86c201(6201)
SiS86c202(6202)
SiS86c205(6205)
SiS5597
SiS5598
SiS6326AGP
The next option for UNIX/Linux users is to obtain a commercial X server. You can get a single-head accelerated X server from XiG(http://www.xigraphics.com).The XiG Accelerated X server supports the following SiS video chipsets.
Hi to all,
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