[ubuntu] SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers!?!?

[little_fire]

Originally Posted by bgerlich Hi Took me long enough but I finally got around to it. Below is a beta version of sis 771/671 driver package for Ubuntu Jaunty. Now with working 2D Acceleration (XAA). As before - simply install the deb package and make sure that your xorg.conf is the one provided by the system (no modifications required).

Thanks bgerlich,
Can it work with Fedora 11?

[sieben]

Hallo KS Tan!

Thank you for your letter. I have send it to my Laptop builder Nexoc and I hope other people will do it too.

[bgerlich]

little_fire:
I don't see why not. Either extract the files form deb package or compile the source.

[bellbottom]

Hello Bgerlich, i'm 64 bit user and i can't not compile the souce code, can you post instructions to compile, please?

[ajoliveira]

Hi

I grabbed a test machine with Xubuntu 8.10 and upgraded to Jaunty by:

# sudo update-manager -d

The result: incomplete upgrade, unstable machine, re-install Xubuntu 8.10...

So, I don't advise anybody with Xubuntu to do what I did...maybe it is better to wait for a while for the stable thing...

Cheers

Antonio

[quetzyg]

Hi there!

Altough she's not using Ubuntu, my girlfriend has a laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens ESPRIMO Mobile V5535) with a SiS Mirage 3 (771/671) graphics card running Arch Linux (xorg-server 1.6.1).

Using Bartlomiej's latest modified driver didn't work.
First I tried the pre-compiled binary, then I compiled the driver from source, with the same results.

The Xorg log doesn't show any actual errors, because the graphics card is detected and the driver is loaded. The problem is that the screen blinks, and between blinks the last image (before running X with the SiS driver) that the graphics card has in ram/buffer/whatever is shown, and it just stays doing that.

Did this happened to anyone? How about you Cybrarian. Was this the problem you had before the Xorg upgrade you had to do?

Here is the xorg.conf, nothing fancy, just the essential:

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Device0"
	Driver		"sis671"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
	Device		"Device0"
EndSection

Before the Xorg upgrade, it was doing fine using xorg-server 1.5.x with this Ubuntu 8.10 driver. Using VESA driver for now.

Cheers,
Quetzy

[bgerlich]

Maybe Arch didn't push out the DRIFinishScreenInit bug fix yet. Try disabling the DRI using the

option "DRI" "0"

in the Device section of your xorg.conf. Tell us what are your results.

[quetzyg]

Originally Posted by bgerlich Maybe Arch didn't push out the DRIFinishScreenInit bug fix yet. Try disabling the DRI using the option "DRI" "0" in the Device section of your xorg.conf. Tell us what are your results.

Thank you, problem solved!

[bgerlich]

Originally Posted by quetzyg Thank you, problem solved!

Be warned through. Turning off DRI makes the driver about 3 to 4 times slower. Try to look into that X.org fix and when will it be available in Arch.

Alternately you can find "return DRIFinishScreenInit" in sis.c and replace it with "return TRUE". It's in function SisDRIScreenInit (or something similar).

[quetzyg]

Originally Posted by bgerlich Be warned through. Turning off DRI makes the driver about 3 to 4 times slower. Try to look into that X.org fix and when will it be available in Arch. Alternately you can find "return DRIFinishScreenInit" in sis.c and replace it with "return TRUE". It's in function SisDRIScreenInit (or something similar).

Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into that

Cheers,
Quetzy