SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers

[mhgsys]

I have the same problem on my generic laptop, installed ubuntu 10.04 beta and the best resolution available is 800x600. At the start-up there are purple lines flickering as mentioned in the first post.

MHGSYS can you please provide "an idiot's guide" how to solve this issue. I tried what you wrote but still no joy. I don't know what you mean by switching to TTY.

thank you,
navy

Sure;

THIS WORKS on ubuntu 10.04 explained version


download the drivers from http://estebanordano.com.ar/sis-m671...-debian-sidux/ EDIT: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
Use http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen...t_10.04.tar.gz for the 32 bit driver and
http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen...t_10.04.tar.gz for the 64 bit driver,
(take the install files), unzip them

once unzipped copy or move them (I just copied them)

Open up a terminal and go to the path you've unzipped them in.(use the cd command to navigate to directory's) f.e; cd /home/user/Downloads

sudo cp sis671_drv.* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

type in your password and press enter

then stop X

We need to stop X or we won't be able to auto-generate a xorg.conf.new

sudo service gdm stop

you'll have to do next part blindly)

Switch to tty1 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+f1

(f2 for tty2, f3 for tty3, etc.. (f7 should be X)

Even though you won't be able to read it (yet) you can login

type in your username and press enter

type in your password and press enter

Now you're logged in you want to become root; type;

sudo bash

type in your password

Now your root; type in

Xorg -configure

(this will create a xorg.conf.new in your home directory)

and start gdm again with

service gdm start

Once there; Open up a terminal again;
move the auto-generated xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
with

sudo mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and restart gdm by typing;

sudo service gdm restart

Fix the plymouth and the unreadable tty problem like this
Open up a terminal and typ

sudo bash

 enter your password

type;

echo blacklist vga16fb > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-vga16fb.conf

type;

update-initramfs -u

and reboot

reboot