ambardeep

hi i wanted to change to Sis drivers for red hat linux 9. its showing VESA type and memory 16 mb only.the screen resolution wont change from 800x600. igoogled and found that sis doesnt make drivers for linux.but a guy makes them for free and is available on his site. since i am quite new to linux , i hav problems understanding as how to install the drivers! plz visit this site:juts read about installation procedure! http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart4.shtml#download i have found correct driver but am unable to install it Q1. i replaced the sis_dri.o file( this means i am using Xfree86????) "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/."this is the path in which i found this .o file. it says u must stop xorg6.9 do ihav to stop xfree too ,how? Q2.how to restart the xorg/xfree? Q3.i restarted computer with that driver copied to that path .but nothing changed? help!!!!!!!

thankx for ur reply danleff, after reading ur comments and visting that forum, i tried to switch back to redhat linux 9 until i get fedora5. but now there is a new problem!:x ;( :x ;( The rhl9 setup wont continue! it says bcos of the bootloader that is still there in the pata drive it cant continue.how do i remove it! plz suggest a method!!

thaknx for ur reply! ok sorry for hyping it up!( well i panicked when i saw the kernel panic!) the boot bios order when i installed was floppy/cdrom/pata. since sata is not detected by redhat 9 i think it wont matter whether it was connected or not !( actually earlier ,whenever i wanted to boot windows i had to change boot bios to sata and to pata for linux).thats why i thought to switch to fedora4. now information abt my system: asembled pc, motherboard Asus K8S-MX harddisk 1.seagate:baracudda 7200.7 80gb sata 2.samsung sv2042h 20gb pata information abt pata drive: 1.yes,i did have pata in this bootorder floppy/cdrom/pata 2.i made partitions on my pata using partition magic hdd1 -ex3 6mb hdd5- vfat 6mb hdd2- ex3 101 mb /boot hdd3- ex3 12gb / hdd4- 957 mb /linux -swap everything went well & i successfully installed rhl9. then i changed all of these to fat32(bcos of sata incompatibility with rhl9) and formatted them using partition magic and later deleted all partitions using dos and fdisk(i didnt format any using fdisk). 3. yes,i chose to add grub to the mbr during installation of rhl9 on pata (remebber sata isnt detected by rhl9 so no question of mbr on it!and also i removed sata physically when installing!) 4. i cant get fc5 now since i have limited bandwidth connection. 5. i got ur point to install grub on same drive so that i can dual boot ,but now fc4 doesnt detect any drive. what shud i do! 6. i can reinstall rhl9 on pata again with both drives( sata's presence doesnt matter as its not detected by rhl9) if it will solve the matter!i mean i will install rhl9 again then remove/unistall it using some proper procedure (if somebody cud tell me that too)that will probably remove it from mbr and then i can install fc4 without encountering any problem that i am facing now! plz pardon my lack of knowledge and do reply!

hi all i have winxp installed on my 80gb SATA. i installed redhat 9 on my 20gb PATA by NOT connecting SATA hdd to the cpu for some reasons.i installed grub on mbr.later i came to know that redhat 9 doesnt suppport sata so i cudnt get my linux to dual boot winxp. i got fedora 4 recently .so to install it, i formatted my PATA totally by booting using dos and fdisk.i also deleted all the partitions.i think deleting all partitions will erase all records of linux,no? now! i burn isolinux image of fedora on a cdrom as i am using isos to install it. on rebooting , i pressed enter to log in to graphical mode. the booting started and then suddenly i started getting these kind of messages: SIS_IDE : probe of 0000:00:02.5 detection with error ...things now move very fast i cant see.... VFS:cannot open root "<NULL>" or unknown boot (8,3). please append a correct"root=" boot option kernel panic not syncing :VFS unable to mount root fs and loads to rubbish... then the screen wud get stuck and i wud have to reboot i hav tried several times ( even detached my sata to do it and next time pata and next time with both attached(phew..) )but in vain. help plz..... :x update : as prescribed in sum forums i put garbage vaalue and then press linux mediacheck.AND fedora starts to install... BUT its not detecting any of my harddisks!!!!!! HELP plz [Edited by ambardeep on 2006-07-02 09:50:47]