[Cialug] 1GHz Athlon, Linux Mint, poor video

[David Champion]

Kendall Bailey wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org 
> <mailto:newz at bearfruit.org>> wrote:
>
>     http://xkcd.com/619/
>
>
> I know.  I hate it that Flash is a criteria for usefulness.  At least 
> I'm not asking for WoW-capable.
>
> Thanks for the vid-card advice.  How 'bout the other questions?  I 
> find the lsmod says nothing about "sis".  Should the sis driver be 
> loaded by xorg?  I tried generating a xorg.conf, which lists "sis" as 
> the driver.  I restarted gdm and lsmod still doesn't list sis.  Before 
> buying a new vid-card I'd like to make sure the current one is 
> configured and not using a generic vesa driver.  I can modprobe sis, 
> and then lsmod shows it.  How do I force it to load on reboot, and 
> force xorg to use it?
>
> Thanks,
> Kendall
Run the "xvidtune" command while in X, will show you what driver you're 
currently using.

-dc