Graphics driver SiS on notebook asus

[Paper Tiger]

I'm trying to follow these instructions but after I log out and press CTRL-ALT F2 and get a shell the commmand

sudo killall gdm

returns- gdm:no processes found

So, how can I shut down X or whatever is handling the windowing session in Karmic so that I can run Xorg -configure?

As you've probably guessed I'm trying to install SiS m671 drivers for an FS Esprimo 5535 laptop. I had no trouble with my Tosh, but sadly that died and I got this FS piece of junk as a replacement.

[elliotn]

Hello everybody. I've bought the notebook ASUS K50C and I installed ubuntu well except the graphics driver of the Graphic support SIS M672 . I'm trying in every way to find these drivers cause my resolution now is just 800x600.. i should have a resolution of 1366x768!
is there a way to find these drivers?? I'm really sorry for my bad english! and thank you for your help anyway!

SiS sux I had to buy a new gfx to get the effects

[Paper Tiger]

I've kept looking and still no joy:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop just tells me not to invoke scripts through init.d and that I should use the service(8) utility. However

[sudo] service gdm stop just tells me "stop: unknown instance"

sudo init 1 apparently should leave me at run level 1 single user and text input. except it doesn't.

laptop is still stuck in an unusable 800x600 resolution

[Paper Tiger]

Success!

First of all I used this to make sure my driver was up to date

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-sis671

Then pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1, and entered my login before issuing the following commands:

sudo service gdm stop

sudo Xorg -configure

sudo cp /home/<username>/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then I added in the following subsection in the "Screen" section

Section "Screen"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    24
        Modes    "1280x800"   "1280x768"    "1024x768"    "800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    # Leave other settings intact
EndSection

then finally restart gdm with

sudo service gdm start

And Bingo - my laptop is now running in 1280x800

No idea why the service stop wouldn't work before but it did this time.
I hope this is of help to some people

[buckyaustin]

Hi this is the solution I stumbled upon when I had the same problem. Its from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...97#post9014997.

In this thread there is a xorg.conf file which I just copied and pasted as I had tried in the past to rewrite the xorg.conf file which failed. This also switches you from SIS drivers to VESA drivers. Don't be naive the SIS drivers won't work. And as from my experience of using Ubuntu with SIS which is since Ubuntu hardy they do not work nor will ever work, use the more stable Vesa drivers.



Here Is The Solution:
Applications: top left corner
Accessories
Terminal

Copy Code: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
type your password.

Then copy this into your xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 31-61
VertRefresh 50-75
Modeline "1024x768" 25.20 640 688 784 800 350 410 412 449
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

[azedddine]

Hi this is the solution I stumbled upon when I had the same problem. Its from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...97#post9014997.

In this thread there is a xorg.conf file which I just copied and pasted as I had tried in the past to rewrite the xorg.conf file which failed. This also switches you from SIS drivers to VESA drivers. Don't be naive the SIS drivers won't work. And as from my experience of using Ubuntu with SIS which is since Ubuntu hardy they do not work nor will ever work, use the more stable Vesa drivers.



Here Is The Solution:
Applications: top left corner
Accessories
Terminal

Copy Code: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
type your password.

Then copy this into your xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 31-61
VertRefresh 50-75
Modeline "1024x768" 25.20 640 688 784 800 350 410 412 449
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

hello, is this a solution for the sis 672 graphic? i mean, can i get the 3D effect?

[3rdalbum]

Success!...

And Bingo - my laptop is now running in 1280x800

No idea why the service stop wouldn't work before but it did this time.
I hope this is of help to some people

Hmm, that's what I was trying to advise you to do... but looking back at what I'd written earlier, I realise I was giving some obsolete commands that don't work in 9.10.

[purct]

I had problems with configuring sis671 driver with my laptop ASUS X5DC. I had to modify the src code to get it working. check out my blog to get the binaries if you want to try the driver I modified.

http://tpurch-blog.blogspot.com

[jb_barroso]

SiS M671/M672 driver for xorg xserver 7.5 on Debian / Sidux (Working on Ubuntu 10.04):

http://estebanordano.com.ar/sis-m671...-debian-sidux/

[mhgsys]

http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X134...0.9-1_i386.deb
will work for most people on ubuntu 9.10
simply install the deb package and reboot.(for asus ask purct)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=958967&page=45
#post 445
Will work for most people on 10.04 (for asus follow next link)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=958967&page=44
#438 will work for most people on 10,04 using asus K50C/X5DC

Also; Last two links direct to the most active sis 771/671 thread since 2008 and contains lot's of contributing users.

Edit: No 3d... no compiz.. 2d drivers only.