[arch-general] Xorg video driver for de sis 771/671

[Wes Barnett]

On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 20:30 -0300, Sebastián Pedersen wrote:
> On 17-04-2016 06:56 PM, Mauro Santos wrote:
> > On 17-04-2016 22:17, Sebastián Pedersen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > lspci | grep -i vga
> > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> > > 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
> > > 
> > > but I couldn't an xorg driver that's support my video card.
> > > 
> > > I try this
> > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SiS
> > > but with no luck.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else using this video card?
> > > 
> > > Many thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > 
> > The most I could find was this [1-2]. You may have to build the driver
> > from git but it might not work given that the last commit was from last
> > year.
> > 
> > I seem to recall reading something about some drivers not being
> > supported or not supporting something since a few xorg releases, but I
> > can't remember (or find) where I read that.
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/sis/
> > [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/
> 
> Many thanks. Maybe I'll give it a try, although I'm not very much 
> inclined to the build driver solution.
> 
> Just in case you know, I was using the vesa driver but start not working 
> properly (some issue with the rendenring) so I'm right now using the 
> fbdev driver, but with the switch (from vesa to fbdev) the DPMS stops 
> working, any ideas?


Have you tried using Xorg's modesetting driver? Just remove all other drivers
and Xorg will rely on it. It may be a possible alternative for you. See "man
modesetting".