Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Braakman
I would like to do this work. I recently gained possession of a laptop with SiS 771/671 graphics so I can do my own testing. My plan is to take the version in Mandriva and rework it into a series of patches that can be applied to the master branch of xf86-video-sis on freedesktop. Then we can

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-27 Thread Willian Gustavo Veiga
Richard Braakman, you should talk to Paulo Zanoni (pzanoni [at] mandriva dot com). Thank you very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Willian Gustavo Veiga
I have the same issue here. Paulo Zanoni from Mandriva (pzanoni [at] mandriva dot com) is the maintainer of this driver. He applies patches from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/ to

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Willian Gustavo Veiga wilt...@gmail.com (23/02/2011): maintainer of this driver. He applies patches from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/ to http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/x11-driver-video-sisimedia/current/ . I agree with Jonatas. An

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Yorke
Willian isn't talking about xserver-xorg-video-sis driver. He is talking about the Mandriva one. Maybe you could package it for us. It's updated and it's still maintained. We always need to do manual configuration after a Debian installation. Please, take a look at these links:

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Thomas Yorke proveyourselft...@gmail.com (23/02/2011): Willian isn't talking about xserver-xorg-video-sis driver. He is talking about the Mandriva one. what Willian meant by “He applies patches from […] to […]” wasn't clear, but anyway. Maybe you could package it for us. It's updated and

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread TImo Aaltonen
On 23.02.2011 18:43, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'd suggest (again) to get people interested in having it shipped to do the very basic work of getting a git tree (and a maintainer for it) on fd.o; then we can think about shipping such a package. Or better yet; make the patches to apply to upstream

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 05:43:32PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, [...] It would be pretty useful for us. I'd suggest (again) to get people interested in having it shipped to do the very basic work of getting a git tree (and a maintainer for it) on fd.o; then we can think about shipping

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2011-02-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
TImo Aaltonen tjaal...@ubuntu.com (23/02/2011): Or better yet; make the patches to apply to upstream -sis. If -sismedia is a fork of 0.9.1 then the new device support could be added to the main driver.. Exactly what I'm talking about with Paulo right now. Apparently that was a big (bad) patch.

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2010-04-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Djalma Brandão Martins djalmabmart...@gmail.com (26/04/2010): http://mandriva.c3sl.ufpr.br/devel/2010.1/SRPMS/main/release/x11-driver-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-1.20091203.4mdv2010.1.src.rpm On some Mandriva page (thanks to google cache since it's not answering otherwise), one can read: “RPM

Bug#546741: Driver for SiS 771/671

2010-04-25 Thread Djalma Brandão Martins
There is a driver in Mandriva that works for this card: http://mandriva.c3sl.ufpr.br/devel/2010.1/SRPMS/main/release/x11-driver-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-1.20091203.4mdv2010.1.src.rpm There is a way of including this driver in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to