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Phil and Julie wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a PC with a SIS 650 graphics driver.
>I found after some dismay that the driver is only provided as a  binary from SIS and it only works
>for Redhat 7.0 or 7.2
>
>Therefore I installed Radhat 7.0 from the official CD, and used  Xconfigurator with the 'card not
>known' option to generate a XF86Config file.
>It is fine, by the way, in generic VGA mode.
>
>I attempted to add a line in the Devices section, namely:
>Drivers "sis"
>and tried running startx
>An error came up saying that the Drivers line was not accepted.
>
>I'm wondering if I need to have an updated X server or kernel, but  cannot find any wisdom by
>"googling".
>
>Hope someone has the answer, as I have never seen linux in 800 X  600!
>
>Phil
>	
>
Hi,
you can let your sis 650 work under rh8, or md9, it is work.
In fact, under the RH 7.*, you can download the sis driver and XFree, to 
let the sis display device work.
but maybe you will think it is too trouble.

Tom