sis m741 driver?

Forum thread started by inseculous on Fri, 2006-09-01 23:09

Does anyone know of a working sis m741 video driver?

I've got an averatec 2600 with this chip in it. I loaded Be on it and in the debug booting it says that the App_Server crashed since no driver could be found. It also hangs when it hits my wireless nic but I can turn that off.

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Re: sis m741 driver?

by umccullough - 2006-09-02 01:20

inseculous wrote:

Does anyone know of a working sis m741 video driver?

I've got an averatec 2600 with this chip in it. I loaded Be on it and in the debug booting it says that the App_Server crashed since no driver could be found. It also hangs when it hits my wireless nic but I can turn that off.

I suspect you're gonna be waiting for a while. Last I heard, SiS has not been very forthcoming about releasing specs for their hardware.

Someone was working on an SiS 630/730 driver - possibly based on the reverse-engineered driver available for Linux, but I don't think it's in any state to be used in BeOS yet.

The linux SiS driver maintainer I'm familiar with can be seen here: http://www.winischhofer.net - it looks like the 741 may be part of the "315 series" (with a device id of 0x6330 ?).

Try using spacebar before BeOS boots to select a VESA mode resolution for boot. This should allow you to boot - as it does on my SiS 630-based machine.

sis m741 driver?

by inseculous - 2006-09-02 12:13

thanks for the tips. Now it's getting to sysinit2: 31 and saying Fault (6) not handled. the line above is:

6: invalid opcode occured at eip = ec0618db

the two lines above that were starting the system bootscript and loading libroot

not sure what to make of this. I also disabled DMA, bios call and multi processor support.

sis m741 driver?

by umccullough - 2006-09-02 15:13

inseculous wrote:

thanks for the tips. Now it's getting to sysinit2: 31 and saying Fault (6) not handled. the line above is:

6: invalid opcode occured at eip = ec0618db

yikes, sounds like a processor-compatibility problem!

Are you using BeOS Max Edition 3.1b1? (it already has the AMD Athlon patch applied)

I'd be curious if Haiku boots as it has more modern CPU/hardware support, but getting it installed on the HD without BeOS/Zeta already installed would be a challenge right now, so you may have to wait until a cd-based installer is available to test it.