Silicon Motion chip on amd64

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/2/06, Free Ekanayaka <free at agnula.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> |--==> Alex Deucher writes:
>
>   >>
>   >>Yes, when trying to use the siliconmotion driver the X server seems to
>   >>start bug hangs half way, and sucks the 99% of the  CPU. The screen is
>   >>completely black and there's no pointer.
>
>   AD> Do "NoAccel" or XaaNoCPUToScreenColorExpandFill help?
>
> Apparently not. I've added this to my xorg.conf
>
> Section "Device"
>         Option          "NoAccel"
>         Option          "XaaNoCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
>         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
>         Driver          "vesa"
>         BusID           "PCI:0:10:0"
> EndSection
>
> but it didn't change anything. I'm not  an expert of xorg tweaking, so
> I may be missing something very basic in setting these options..
>

that should do it.  Do you have a log from the failed X start with
siliconmotion?

Alex

> Ciao,
>
> Free
>
>