Bug for some graphics cards from Silicon Integrated Systems / SIS solved in 14.04

[Antonio_Carlos_..]

I have an old notebook wich I just installed Lubuntu on it. The main purpose is to give It to my father so he can watch vídeos on youtube.
After Lubuntu's installation, I got a low resolution (640x480) wich I just don't know how to change/improve it. Anyone can help me? Thanks.

[mörgæs]

Another merge.

Please post the output requested in post #7.

[mick.cannon]

Success !! Got it working at last by replacing my xorg.conf file with the one in this thread. Thanks for the help.

[Nikhil_mishra]

this is my xorg.conf file works fine now giving me a resolution of 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 and 640x480 works fine after a several reboot tried all the method but in the last tried this method https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/sis so m not assure which method worked but i can say after using system in live usb mode once created a xconfig.org file and then reboot m not assured but if u want try above link method with this xorg file, sorry if u didn't get anything i just want to help u all so enjoy

Section "Device"    Identifier     "Configured Video Device"
    Driver         "sisimedia"
    Option         "UseTiming1366" "yes"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Configured Monitor"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device         "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[woody1]

Where did you put the xorg.conf, I copied into /etc/X11 and restarted X, but this doesn't seem to work

[javier-ejsf]

I pasted it exactly into /etc/X11
Did you copy it with Root power? Like uhm, sudo cp....

[Ruy Benton]

Thanks a lot. This is exactly what saved my Lubuntu on an Esprimo v5535.

To get full video use SMPLAYER ...


And Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ... OK???


And MIR full support?

Best regards,
Ruy

[terry24]

For anybody that hasn't been able to get 1366x768 with SiS - you may want to read this..

I have been trying to find a solution for my laptop (Acer K50C) sis 672. I wanted to get 1366x768 resolution working with Ubuntu 14.04. In previous releases of ubuntu I downloaded the sis761 driver and compiled it....but I haven't been able to find a code that compiles ok for this ubuntu release.

I ended up downloading the sisimedia driver

followed the instructions at the URL Below:

http://zatherz.cba.pl/sis/

[Alex Eagle]

I haven't read this whole thread so no need to accuse me of being ignorant or owt, but I'm trying to post this on all SIS threads.

I have a (horrible) Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535, and this fixed it for me...

Hope it helps.

P.S: morgaes is really good. Also grahammechanical is brillo with 'buntu. Also Bashing-om. If you're ever in doubt about owt 'buntu-ish, ask them. I don't know anyone better, and I'm sure some one better don't exist, which explain why I don't know of them.

[jan-prikryl]

Just a quick note to other "happy" owners of notebooks with SiS 771/671 family (Mirage 3) graphics: The Xorg "sis" driver in 14.04 does not work with SiS 771/671 family (Mirage 3). Actually, as far as I was able to find out, no version of Xorg drivers seems to officially support 771/671. There are some hacked drivers for XF86 and older Xorg versions, but people do not report much success with them. Related askubuntu topic is here. I came across a Xorg-devel mailing list thread (here, here, and here) where a guy has tried to update such a driver for a recent Xorg codebase in May 2013, but the thread ends at the moment when the driver probably works, but still has some problems.

Besides downgrading to older distributions, the only possibility for SiS 771/671 owners seem to be using the "vesa" driver with custom config as mentioned earlier in this thread. But, at least on the Asus X58C that I am trying to setup, you will not get the native resolution 1280x800 and you will get no acceleration, hence DVD and video playback is unusable.

Of course, as mentioned in the Xorg-devel post and also in the askubuntu question, the best solution would be to go and try git-bisect on the Xorg with working driver and find the change that introduced the bug ...

-- jan