Re: SiS630S FrameBuffer & LCD

[hmh@debian.org (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh)]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Stuart Young wrote:
> Like my previous SiS post, I'm once again using the Clevo lp200t (SiS630S 
> chipset), and trying to enable the SiS FrameBuffer device. Once again, this 
> happens on 2.4.9, 2.4.10, and 2.4.12.

Well, that piece of ***** chipset will ONLY work if you talk to it through
the VESA BIOS in a laptop I have here.  This is fine for XFree86 (we used
the VESA driver), but I don't know if this would work for the kernel VESA
framebuffer driver.

The SiS drivers will basicaly screw your hardware up. You *must* talk to it
through the BIOS, or it will not manage to get the video/LCD timings right or
even hung the PCI bus. Smells like the chipset needs extra data that the
current drivers do not know how to set.

> In either case, the machine continues to run happily, and I can either ssh 

Lucky you. Our laptop got a PCI buffer hung out of the deal.

> It seems plausible that the documentation that SiS has provided is now 
> out--of-date, and/or the drivers are assuming the wrong things in cases of 
> the unknown. The problem is easily reproducible, and the SiS630S chipset 
> (which seems to be the one affected, but may not necessarily be the only 
> one) is becoming more widespread in laptop/all-in-one PC's.

Indeed. We need fully updated docs from SiS on how to deal with their newest
"contribution" to the onboard-video family.

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