Need to recompile xorg SiS driver, but how?

[dvh]

I have Intel D201GLY2 motherboard which doesn't work well with native ubuntu drivers (7.10 nor 8.04alpha6). It is well known problem (vertical stripes across the screen, missing xv and 3d acceleration). All theese problems solve patched version of SiS xorg driver. I've downloaded patched version of SiS video driver from http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/sisp.tar.gz.

But it is for xorg 7.1. However it is know to work with 7.2 version too, it only need to disable version checking in this driver source. So I need to recompile this driver for my current xorg (Ubuntu 7.10). I uncomment all deb-src from sources list, but what to do now? I compile a lot, I'm experienced user, but not via apt-src so I need some quick start. I could download "some" xorg source from x.org, but God knows what it will do with ubuntu's xorg, so I preffer ubuntu-native solution. thanks.

The reason why I need xorg source is that ./configure in that modified SiS driver said:

checking for XORG... configure: error: Package requirements (xorg-server >= 1.0.99.901 xproto fontsproto xf86dgaproto ) were not met:

No package 'xorg-server' found
No package 'xproto' found
No package 'fontsproto' found
No package 'xf86dgaproto' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XORG_CFLAGS
and XORG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

[gameame]

I had your same problem. I managed to compile the driver after having installed:
x11proto-core-dev
x11proto-fonts-dev
x11proto-gl-dev
x11proto-input-dev
x11proto-randr-dev
x11proto-render-dev
x11proto-video-dev
x11proto-xext-dev
x11proto-xf86dga-dev
x11proto-xf86dri-dev
x11proto-xf86misc-dev
x11proto-xinerama-dev
mesa-common-lib

I hava a SiS Mirage integrated video driver on a Foxconn n15235 motherboard with Ubuntu 8.04 alpha6.

[pulsifier]

maybe you could give us a hand?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=M671&page=6

[ottod]

Patched source and binaries for D201GLY2 compiled for Hardy. Originals taken from here. 2D only. Capable of playing videos with included xorg.conf.
Binaries only for the interested. I know enough C only to make a sophisticated Hello World. I just forced some ifdef's that were not working well and replaced one deprecated constant called SecurityWriteAccess with DixWriteAccess.
Binaries compiled and working in Hardy Heron beta. Place sis_drv.* in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and xorg.conf in /etc/X11. xorg.conf is configured for a generic 60hz 1024x768 CRT. Do a dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg if not good for you and after first boot, try to check available screen resolutions in System/Preferences. Important lines for video playback are
Option "EnableSiSCtrl" "yes"
Option "XvDefaultAdaptor" "Blitter"
Remove not wanted screen resolutions and virtual desktop settings from xorg.conf to taste. Use included as sample.
If successful, have a toast with some !

[Master One]

Wouldn't it be great, if someone could manage a binary package for 64bit Hardy as well? Would save a lot of hassle, and prevent ppl wasting time on one and the same task (inventing the wheel multiple times).

[Master One]

Originally Posted by dvh The reason why I need xorg source is that ./configure in that modified SiS driver said

How about the debian way, instead of installing all the needed dev-packages according to the ./configure error-messages:

sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-sis

[tuneable]

Wouldn't it be great, if someone could manage a binary package for 64bit Hardy as well?

That would really be great!

A binary was produced compiling the source from Intel, but it did not seem to work.

[Master One]

Thanks to ottod, using the src-package from here it was no problem compiling the driver on Hardy amd64.

But now I am fiddling with the rebuild of the kernel to inlude the iMedia-patch for sis-agp, because without it, no AGP support. I already did it, and it was working great, but with my rebuilt kernel there seemed to be some modules missing (likt snd-intel8x0), although I took the .config from /boot. I think I open a new thread concerning this issue.

[tuneable]

Thanks Master One, I compiled the binary using the "ottod" modified source and things went like a breeze on Hardy 64bit running on an Intel d201gly2 motherboard.

After compilation, I manually moved the binary to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ (not to the default /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ location). Not sure if it makes a difference, but I thought I'd better mention it.

Thumbs up to ottod!

[Master One]

No manual moving of files requires, just do it this way:

sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-sis
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

I am still on the matter of patching the kernel, which is far less of a problem, than expected before (this time I just followed the CustomKernel guide in the Ubuntu wiki, using the git-method), but I am unsure how to measure the difference between having AGP support and not.

With just the driver, but no patched kernel, you will find a line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that just says something like "No AGP found, aborting". With the patched kernel it finds AGP and says something about 32MB assigned to AGP or so. With normal use in Gnome, I could not see any real difference so far, that's why I would like to know, how to measure graphics performance with and without AGP support.