SiS driver in X.org 7.4 'snows' and is unusable

[Michał Gołębiowski]

Hello,

'sis' driver included in X.org 7.4 (which is particularly used by Ubuntu 
8.10 Intrepid Ibex) does not work with a lot of SiS graphic cards, 
including my SiS M760. Generated screen is 'fuzzy', one can see weird 
colors, flashy screen etc., making it hard to eyes.

This makes this driver unusable and forces users to switch to 'vesa', 
which is slower and, at least in Intrepid, causes computer to stutter 
during playing some videos (not HD ones, so my computer should handle 
them without any problem...).

Here is a bug report in bugs.freedesktop.org:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19104
and the one reported in launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/264769
It seems that Thomas Winischhofer, assigned to this part of X.org 
project, is unreachable now (nobody has responded to my report at 
bugs.freedesktop.org yet).

As quite a lot of people use SiS cards, this is a serious problem. As 
for now, we can only use some older Linux distributions, as Ubuntu 8.04 
Hardy Heron (Long Term Support edition, supported till 2011). If it were 
not repaired until 2011, it would leave SiS users unsupported.

I know that SiS company ignores Linux community and there will always be 
problems with their graphic cards, but just a few years ago most 
not-so-expensive notebooks used their products, so we had no choice as a 
result of lack of money.

Thanks for Your time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Regards,
Michał Gołębiowski