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

[Sebastián Pedersen]

On 17-04-2016 08:52 PM, Wes Barnett wrote:
> 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".

The modesetting driver complains about:

[   901.176] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: 
kms
[   901.176] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

Any ideas?