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

[marshall at brooklandsand.co.uk]

On 17 June 2012 at 13:17 Nelson Marambio <nelsonmarambio at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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
>

Thank you very much for the pointers Nelson.
I now have it working with the extra/xf86-video-sisimedia driver and the
following xorg.conf


[marshall at jynx ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "sisimedia"
Card "** SiS 771/761 [sis761]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "EnableSisCtrl" "yes"
#Option "ForceCRT1Type" "LCD"
#Option "ForceCRT2Type" "NONE"
Option "CRT2Detection" "true" #For me this worked better than forceing the
detection. If you use this comment out the two Force lines above this.
Option "CRT1Gamma" "on"
Option "CRT2Gamma" "on"
Option "Brightness" "0.000 0.000 0.000"
Option "Contrast" "0.000 0.000 0.000"
Option "CRT1Saturation" "0"
Option "XvOnCRT2" "yes"
Option "XvDefaultContrast" "2"
Option "XvDefaultBrightness" "10"
Option "XvDefaultHue" "0"
Option "XvDefaultSaturation" "0"
Option "XvDefaultDisableGfxLR" "no"
Option "XvGamma" "off"
Option "UseTiming1366" "yes"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection





Thanks again.

--TIMTTMY