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

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Kendall Bailey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Matthew Nuzum <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?

you should be able to load the module with /etc/modules (or 
modules.conf, mostly deprecated, but still seems to work most of the 
time), /etc/modprobe.d/aliases ( alias char-major-somethingsomething 
sis), or just throw the modprobe into /etc/rc.local


-barry