SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers

**Solarium** · January 17th, 2009

Umm well this is just a thought, but can't Cannonical / Ubuntu Devs ask sis for the driver to go in to their distro as well ?

I know that there aren't many people with the sis curse around, but if it aint that much trouble to compile the drivers for 8.10 it would be a really nice work around, and since sis provided them to satux maybe they will do the same for ubuntu.

**Retraut** · January 19th, 2009

I think problem with SIS Mirage 3 will be actually, for ages... And one day SIS gave to us his source of 3D driver, but NOBODY I repeat NOBODY use SIS in thr future, because this is a Sh...t

**bellbottom** · January 19th, 2009

The problem is not don't use Sis. The real problem is the people who have Sis graphics on the laptop.

Canonical should give a solution like Statux offering the drivers for the sis users, but i think Canonical never developes new things and innovations for the community. Canonical is just a collection of the community advances with nothing new.

Other question:
PLease, look this post in Statux forums and read the post where someone tells how put statux drivers in Slackware:

Olá senhores,

Peguei o pacote disponivel do site do satux com o driver 3d da sis, descompactei o mesmo, e então separei os seguintes arquivos

usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.la
usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so
usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.lai
usr/lib/dri/sis671_dri.so

Copiei os mesmos para os diretorios em questão utilizado no slackware e vuala, dri funcionando.

Obviamente a necessário mandar carregar o dri e o glx no xorg.conf

He after umpack the driver put copy of the named files in respective places and make it work the Sis 3d driver loading dri and glx in xorg.conf.

I was trying do the same without nothing results.
Have someone success?
Please, tell us how do it.
grets.

**Solarium** · January 19th, 2009

It depends on what ubuntu version you use , because those drivers are for an old kernel from what i understand.

Also i been looking at that site, and they have some beta and alpha drivers for Sis cards that suposetly should work in 8.10.
But to get them you need to register to something called SLEP -> thats where i got lost, cause i dont speak portugeuse i was just using the google function "Translate Page"

**Cybrarian** · January 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by wurzzero

Great, i'll try that on vlc...

I own a brazilian CCE laptop and have the same video issues with this driver. Does it works with mplayer?

**Cybrarian** · January 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by lm2b

About video play:

For Totem:
Run the gconf-editor
Browse for /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/videosink
Change the videosinc value to ximagesink
Done =)

Works nice on Ubuntu 8.10

And on hardy?

**lm2b** · January 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by Solarium

Also i been looking at that site, and they have some beta and alpha drivers for Sis cards that suposetly should work in 8.10.
But to get them you need to register to something called SLEP -> thats where i got lost, cause i dont speak portugeuse i was just using the google function "Translate Page"

The satux forum is outdated (recently only users posts). The SLEP is a group of "beta testers", but there is no way to subscribe, maybe work only in a old satux forum. And so, the "beta" drivers posts at satux forum are the same in the normal download section.

If satux still alive, the developers are in vacation... =)

**Solarium** · January 20th, 2009

So i emailed Fujitsu siemens support regarding this issue, and luckly the person that answered me was kind enought to try and do something about it, he contacted sis and they sent him the driver and he passed it to me, sadly its for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).
Not sure if its 3D but seems like it, so if some one got 7.04 or just wants to try it out, send me few lines and i will email it to you

Regards

**bellbottom** · January 20th, 2009

Congratulations Solarium.
Please, can you put the driver in a hosting site for share and download?

Maybe someone knows hoy make it works in other distros or ubuntu issuees.
Only if you want....

Thanks anyway.
Grets.