Linux graphics card drivers?
May. 25th, 2003 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkSome fiddling around with BIOS settings and reshuffling of the PCI cards to avoid PCI slot 1 (which apparently conflicts with the AGP socket) and jellyfish now has a happy shiny working graphics card. Yaaaaaaay!
A few teething problems remain - firstly my ethernet card appears to refuse to be reattached, but that's no big problem as I don't currently need the thing. I mysteriously lost audio for a while too, but that seems to have reappeared now. More importantly, I'm lacking graphics drivers in linux for the new card. X is reverting to a generic driver allowing an appalling 320x200 screen resolution, which is unworkable. The card is a Sis 305 AGP - I'm hoping the latest Xfree86 has drivers for it and am considering the download, but it may be unfeasible over my slow modem. Eeeep. Any advice on downloading and installing graphics card drivers for linux would be much appreciated.
A few teething problems remain - firstly my ethernet card appears to refuse to be reattached, but that's no big problem as I don't currently need the thing. I mysteriously lost audio for a while too, but that seems to have reappeared now. More importantly, I'm lacking graphics drivers in linux for the new card. X is reverting to a generic driver allowing an appalling 320x200 screen resolution, which is unworkable. The card is a Sis 305 AGP - I'm hoping the latest Xfree86 has drivers for it and am considering the download, but it may be unfeasible over my slow modem. Eeeep. Any advice on downloading and installing graphics card drivers for linux would be much appreciated.
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