Need SiS Video Driver with 2D-3D acceleration for Fedora 8

[jspaceman]

I have a Dell Inspiron with integrated video driver, an SiS M650. I used to have Fedora 6 installed, and it played 3d acceleration games like supertux just fine. I did a clean install of Fed 8, and used the default SiS driver in Fed 8. It is called sis_drv.o

Then I went to SiS site, and they had a linux driver for Fedora, it was Fedora 7.2. So I downloaded it, and it's named sis_drv.0-410

I know the paths, and how to get it where it needs to go, but which files do I edit to try and
use the new driver? I can get back to where I need to be if it doesn't work, but I want to try it
and see if it has the 3d acceleration enabled.

this is an i386 celeron processor. Any help appreciated.

[Wayne]

Have you seen this thread?

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=191101

Wayne

[Hlingler]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it would be very interesting if you could get - or ever had - 3D acceleration for that chipset, since none are known to exist for Linux: http://www.winischhofer.net/sisdri.shtmlThere is no DRI support for the SiS 315/550/650/651/740/661/741/760/330.Drivers ending in *_drv.so are 2D drivers. 3D drivers are *_dri.so, and 3D driver kernel modules are *.ko. You need all three to get 3D/DRI hardware-accelerated rendering. Fedora 8 and below do not ship with any 3D driver for SIS cards, however, that driver is available: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=185162 if you would like to satisfy curiosity.

V