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Re: SuSE driver for SiS video

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Tue Nov 17 13:23:52 1998

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cc: John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:14:28 CST."
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:20:22 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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jmayson@mindspring.com said:
> I upgraded my motherboard which has build-in video, namely an SiS 
> 5597/5598 chipset.  RedHat doesn't support this chipset.  However, 
> SuSE does and I downloaded the .rpm from their web site http://
> www.suse.de/XSuSE.  This is all find and dandy, except I don't speak 
> a word of German and all of the help is in German.  I was able to 
> figure out I had to point my /etc/X file to their xsuse (or whatever 
> it's called) file.  Do I have to run through Xconfigurator?  Can 
> anyone translate the help for me?  I know, I know, ignorant 
> mono-lingual Americans.  But hey, I studied French and Esperanto.  
> :-) 

The specific URL you need is:
<http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html>

This one is in english, with detailed instructions.

Best
   rickf
-- 
Rick Forrister                 <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>

You'll wonder why your data's lost
   When you load your system with MicroSoft...



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