Re: RE: Xi Graphics avail in India ??

[Rajesh <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Atul,

By the way you have given a detailed account of How SiS6215 and Yamaha
Sound Card are bad. You further say that they do not work properly under windows.
But I am completly against you view. 

I purchased my PC 1-1/2 years back. It is a Zenith one up PC - 166MHZ and it came
with SiS6215 and Yamaha Sound Card. Till now under Windows I never faced any 
problems due to these two cards.

I have installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 from March PCQ 2 months back on my new
Seagate 6.4 GB HDD. With the help of all the friends at Linux-India Mailing list I have 
been able to successfully configure both the display and sound card and now everthing
works smoothly.

Before writing such things you should consider that there are may people who have got 
both these cards on their PC. And people like me have not purchased those cards separatly
because they are Cheap. They have come along with the PC.


Rajesh


At 01-Jun-99 4:15:00 PM, you wrote:
>> However, I
>> thought Linux would run out of the box, and I would not need to
>> buy further
>> stuff to make it run. (And I was cheesed off that I still have to use '98
>> for browsing, after loading Linux - that was the *real* issue)
>
>I don't understand why you say you cannot use Linux just because you can't
>get X started (which is probably because you have a cheap, unsupported
>display card like the SiS6215 [Rs.200 wholesale] in your machine instead of
>a decent card like a Matrox G100 (<2K) or even a S3 Virge/DX [~Rs.1000].
>
>> Pls don't hit me with more rebukes, if its possible for me to *buy* the X
>> server in India, I would appreciate a contact number.
>
>Accelerated X is available fom GT Enterprises (http://www.gtcdrom.com). Be
>aware though that it is *expensive* - in that money you could happily buy
>yourself a more than decent display card and get going.
>
>List admins - I advocate a page on the linux-india site that clearly lists
>equipment that will not work with Linux (since this list would be shorter
>than a list of things Linux *does* work with) so that people configuring
>machines don't make the mistake of "a display card is a display card".
>
>I am especially miffed with the SiS6215 cards - I have recently discovered
>that there are many versions of these - some of which seem to work with
>XFree86, some of them don't.
>
>Let us all take a moment here to bend our heads and pray that the next
>system integrator to offer anyone a SiS6215 card will get chewed up by a
>herd of rabid hyenas, and then get trampled by a herd of elephants
>(unsuccessfully) learning ballroom dancing.
>
>The insane Yamaha sound cards with their varying chipsets and infinite
>variations in BIOSs should be also be subjected to soccer practice with a
>doped out team from South America - just after bowling practice with the
>West Indians. These cards don;t even work properly under *Windows*!
>
>Atul
>
>
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