16.04 with sis graphics card

[JaapS]

Hello,

Just got 16.04 freshly installed on an older laptop with a sis 760 graphics card to find out sis is no way whatsoever supported?
Not a big deal for normal usage fbdev would function fine but max resolution is fixed at 640x480, does any of you guys nows how to change that?

[mörgæs]

Here's a collection of advice for various SIS cards: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2215422
I have not tried 16.04 myself but maybe something from the thread is still valid.

[JaapS]

The only thing that could work is https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/sis but altough that page claims to work on 16.04 I had some trouble since xorg.conf isn't used...

[JaapS]

sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev
cd ~/   #or whatever directory you want to use for this build
wget http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-sis-0.10.8.tar.bz2
tar xjf xf86-video-sis-0.10.8.tar.bz2
cd xf86-video-sis-0.10.8/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

[mörgæs]

since xorg.conf isn't used

The file is not there by default in the recent Buntus but if you create it then it will be used.