Thank you, Tobias! I'll try to use that. As I understand I need to write driver package definition using Guix Manual #Defining-Packages. Is there some difficulties with driver packages?
June 16, 2019 4:08 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <m...@tobias.gr> wrote: > Ehlo Znavko, > > zna...@disroot.org wrote: > >> oops, not sure it is intel. > > SiS[0] is not Intel. They're a Taiwanese company whose graphics > division later became the ill-fated XGI for a while. > > Takes me back… :-) > >> here i've placed driver https://gitgud.io/znavko/sis771 > > As was to be expected, that's not free software (or even open > source) (or even source). > > You're probably breaking the law by even hosting that link: > there's no licence to be found anywhere, let alone one allowing > redistribution. > > This is why proprietary software sucks. > >> Can anybody write package definition ? > > Considering the fact that this is a 10-year-old binary blob for > use with >10-year old X.org, that it would be illegal to host the > origin unless you find a licence permitting that (unlikely), and > that it has 0% chance of ever making it into Guix proper, you're > very unlikely to find a volunteer to do this for you. And this > mailing list or any other Guix project channel would not be an > appropriate place to find them. Sorry. > > On a more positive note: have you looked at > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sisimedia > (or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sis)? > > As you can see by the number of patches at that first link, > keeping such old hardware working with modern software presents > plenty of challenges—without adding those of binary blobs :-) > > T G-R > > [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Integrated_Systems