xf86-video-xgi status?

[Bobbie Stivers]

Hey. I have a Targus ACP60 which has an XGI Volari Z9 chip. Trying the
vesa driver, I get a message that it only works with Z9s. I'm trying to
get the XGI driver compiled but having problems. I've tried sis and
sisfb without luck. Could you throw me your working sis xorg.conf?

On 05/04/09 17:27, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: xf86-video-xgi status?
> From: Ian Romanick<idr at freedesktop.org>
> To: Michael Cronenworth<mike at cchtml.com>
> Date: 05/04/2009 04:22 PM
>
>    
>> Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I may be getting possession of a server that has a XGI Z9s video
chip
>>> integrated on the motherboard and as far as I have researched X will
not
>>> work since Fedora doesn't ship the xgi driver.
>>>        
>> It should work with the vesa driver, and it might work with the SiS
driver.
>>
>>      
>>> I cloned f.o git and found a 1.5 megabyte patch sitting in the
resulting
>>> directory. This doesn't look good.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone in particular working on the xgi driver? It looks
abandoned.
>>>        
>> I had been working on it for awhile, but, as far as I'm aware, nobody
>> has touched it in over a year.  I don't have any XGI Z7 or Z9
hardware
>> (or any interest), so I won't be making any changes either.
>>      
> I figured vesa would be my last resort. Thanks. If I'm curious enough
I
> might try the xgi driver, if I ever get said server.
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I can confirm that the sis driver works fine with that hardware. I have
used
it for sometime with Tyan motherboards. X does not seem to think that
it's
the right driver though so it is not assigned automatically, you'd have
to
create a configuration file with sis as the driver in the Device
section.