Re: SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers!?!?
Originally Posted by
Roehrich
I really don't want to promote another linux distribution in the Ubuntu forum
but for SiS chipsets I have to claim that Mandriva (and eventually PCLinuxOS (Mandriva fork)) is THE distribution to use. SiS @ 1280*800 (2D of course) is supported by Mandriva out of the box since almost 2 years and I would even consider a 1366*768 support with one added line to xorg.conf as possible. I have no 1366 panel, so I can't test.
I have no idea why Ubuntu can not offer the same support for SiS graphics.
So tell your friend to download a Mandriva 2010.1 One live CD and see if it works out of the box on his machine.
Anyway I've given Mandriva a try, but it's definitely not as user-friendly as Ubuntu, at least not for noobs... But I was wondering (because all this stuff is a mystery to me) how is it possible for Mandriva to succeed... while Ubuntu doesn't?
(Disclaimer => Mandriva provides nice working 2D video driver for SiS... it's not 3D! So, no Compiz, no so eye candy!)
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