Silicon Motion chip on amd64

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/2/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

You'll need to try those options with the siliconmotion driver.  they
have no affect on vesa.

Alex

>
> Alex
>
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Free
> >
> >
>