SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers

**Trent T** · September 17th, 2010

This thread helped me a GREAT DEAL!

I have an ancient ASUS desktop with SiS display adapter-- It was running in Low Res mode until I followed your process--
To recap,
Download Sis 771 and 671 video drivers, and add them to
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I used gedit with the superuser password to change the driver to
vesa (lower case letters) in
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and to change HorizSync 20-107
VertRefresh 50-185
To change the resolution, I went to System- Preferences- Display

At the message,

It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead? [Y] [N]

I clicked [No]; 1064 x 768 was available on the list-- I clicked it and voila! No more low res mode!

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this thread!

PS-- For the truly compulsive, here's my system; Note the SiS in everything...

user@user-asus:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

Originally Posted by Rhodderz

Hi i thought i'll add to this
How i got mine to work with 1280x768
in shell i typed
Xorg -configure
then when it finished i typed
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and i added under Section "Monitor" and then under Identifier "Monitor0"
HorizSync 20-107
VertRefresh 50-185

then scroll down a bit to you see Section "Device"
and find Driver and change whatever is between the quotes (forgot what was there) to
VESA

so in the end it should look like

Code:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        HorizSync 20-107
        VertRefresh 50-185
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # <str>
        #Option     "fbdev"                     # <str>
        #Option     "debug"                     # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "VESA"
        VendorName  "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]"
        BoardName   "771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Hope this helps.

**manase007** · September 25th, 2010

Please Help me i try it but i fail at this point.

cp: cannot stat 'sis671_drv.*': No such file or directory

Here is what i did
1>i extract the 32bit driver package to downloads folder
2> cd /home/usr/Downloads
3>sudo cp sis671_drv.* /usr/lib/org/modules/drivers/

i get this

cp: cannot stat 'sis671_drv.*:No such file or directory

IM USING FUJISTU SIEMENS ESPRIMO

AT THIS POINT I DONT KNOW WAT TO DO ANYMORE I NEED HELP

**mhgsys** · September 26th, 2010

Originally Posted by manase007

Please Help me i try it but i fail at this point.

cp: cannot stat 'sis671_drv.*': No such file or directory

3>sudo cp sis671_drv.* /usr/lib/org/modules/drivers/

You have a typo ; and should copy them to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

**azedddine** · September 26th, 2010

Originally Posted by mhgsys

You have a typo ; and should copy them to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

wwoww, you are so attentif,

**manase007** · September 28th, 2010

Originally Posted by mhgsys

You have a typo ; and should copy them to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

SO what is typo do i have to go to teminal and type it? please help

**mhgsys** · September 28th, 2010

a typo is a mistake made by accident while typing or transcribing something

This is what you did:

1> extract the 32bit driver package to downloads folder
2> cd /home/usr/Downloads
3> sudo cp sis671_drv.* /usr/lib/org/modules/drivers/

Here is what you should do

1> extract the 32bit driver package to downloads folder
2> cd /home/usr/Downloads
3>sudo cp sis671_drv.* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

The typo you made was in line /usr/lib/org/modules/drivers/
Notice you forgot the x in xorg
it should be /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

Btw since your new to linux, ..
Remember to change usr in /home/usr to your username,

f.e: cd /home/mhgsys/Downloads

usr in the line /usr/lib/xorg/modules is correct though.. so don't change it there.

**woelfchen** · September 30th, 2010

Update for xorg 1.9 is possible by patching sis_driver.c:

Code:

--- src/sis_driver.c    2010-01-25 18:22:02.000000000 +0100
+++ src/sis_driver.c.new    2010-09-30 09:38:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 #include "shadowfb.h"
 #include "fb.h"
 #include "micmap.h"
-#include "mibank.h"
+/*#include "mibank.h"*/
 #include "mipointer.h"
 #include "mibstore.h"
 /*

It is working on Archlinux (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34256) where I use the source code I found in this forum. Thanks again and lets hope that the driver keeps working in future releases.

**farmer,lee** · October 3rd, 2010

driver attached.
- sis671_drv_0.9.1 for the maverick(10.10) i386.

Usage)

1. extract sis671_drv.so to the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
It's compressed by gzip and 7z ( why? type and size )

2. add(or modify) these lines at /etc/X11/xorg.conf
or extract xorg.conf.gz and modify refresh rate(vert/horiz).
#================================================= ====
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "sis671"
Screen 0
EndSection
...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
...
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
...
#================================================= ====
3. logout and login (re-login)

i hope this will be helpful to you.

this is my first post in this community.

**Another Random Fool** · October 3rd, 2010

advent 9315 specHello peeps, first time on these forums

I have tried everything noted in this thread. Im using an Advent 9315 laptop (everything else works fine, sound wifi etc) running Ubuntu 10.10 beta
Max resolution is 800x600, xorg.conf is blank as default and every time i edit this filr i cant get to the gui
After installing farmer,lee's driver, i get an error going into monitor options:
"It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead?"

Pressing no gets me into options, but if i press yes it brings an error loading ATI Catalyst Control Center?

Still cant get any higher than 800x600 and i've been digging around for a solution since the T-Rex walked the earth

No issues with Plymouth boot screen, no garbage and splash screen works fine

PLEASE HELP!!!! Im going bald with the stress!!!

***EDIT***
chipset is SIS M672MX

**farmer,lee** · October 3rd, 2010

Originally Posted by Another Random Fool

advent 9315 specHello peeps, first time on these forums

I have tried everything noted in this thread. Im using an Advent 9315 laptop (everything else works fine, sound wifi etc) running Ubuntu 10.10 beta
Max resolution is 800x600, xorg.conf is blank as default and every time i edit this filr i cant get to the gui
After installing farmer,lee's driver, i get an error going into monitor options:
"It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead?"

Pressing no gets me into options, but if i press yes it brings an error loading ATI Catalyst Control Center?

Still cant get any higher than 800x600 and i've been digging around for a solution since the T-Rex walked the earth

No issues with Plymouth boot screen, no garbage and splash screen works fine

PLEASE HELP!!!! Im going bald with the stress!!!

***EDIT***
chipset is SIS M672MX

ATI Catalyst Control Center? it's not concerned with SIS VGA Device.
did you tried "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf", everytime ?

try this. and remove ATI Catalyst Control Center(it will remove all your settings). don't use it.
sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf