(Crowd funded) fix for SiS 671/771 video cards

[Daniel Martin]

On 7 May 2013 14:04, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

The sis671 driver:
> # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
...
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>         Driver          "sis671"
>         Option          "NoAccel"       "true"
> EndSection
...

doesn't seem to be a proper module:
> http://pastebin.com/fwXeTCq1
...
[ 12247.125] (II) LoadModule: "sis671"
[ 12247.125] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis671_drv.so
[ 12247.125] (EE) LoadModule: Module sis671 does not have a
sis671ModuleData data object.
[ 12247.125] (II) UnloadModule: "sis671"
[ 12247.125] (II) Unloading sis671
[ 12247.125] (EE) Failed to load module "sis671" (invalid module, 0)
...

Then it tries the other sis driver:
...
[ 12247.125] (II) LoadModule: "sis"
[ 12247.125] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so
...
This one looks like it doesn't support your card. (No 671 listed in
within the supported chipsets.)

> from and
> http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen/bin/sis_driver_64-bit_12.04.tar.gz on
> Ubuntu 13.04
(Haven't had time to look into this.)

Cheers, Daniel