[arch-general] xf86-video-sisimedia problems.

[Nelson Marambio]

Am 17.06.2012 14:03, schrieb marshall at brooklandsand.co.uk:
> I'm having problems with getting a sis 771/671 PCIE VGA display adapter to play
> nice with Arch on my asus X5DC laptop.
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> [marshall at jynx ~]$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon
> Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
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> I've tried drivers from extra (extra/xf86-video-sisimedia 0.9.1-3) and AUR
> (aur/xf86-video-sis671 0.10.3-1). Both drivers give the same results, a bright
> dark-grey screen getting lighter towards the middle, with the middle being
> almost white. I am then returned to a prompt with Xorg saying No screens found.
> Looking through /var/log/Xorg.0.log it looks like xorg did find a screen and
> tried EVERY possible resolution to start an Xsession but couldn't find a
> suitable one.
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> My questions are:
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> Is this the right driver for the card or should I be trying something else.
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> Has anyone got the same card working with this driver and an xorg.conf?
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> I'm running the VESA driver ATM, which is working fine until I try to play full
> screen video or play mari0, then things get slow and ugly.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Regards
>
> --TIMTTMY
>
According to the wiki [1], there is another driver xf86-video-sis which 
might work better. But of course you shouldn't have installed three 
drivers all together. :D

I hope I could help you.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf86-video-sis