Unfortunately this driver has suffered bit-rot upstream since the chip-
set is ancient and not widely used, and support for it in the 12.04 and
14.04 releases is poor to non-existant.
Marking as "Won't Fix" since we haven't found the expertise to fix it in
7 years.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
TJ, is this issue still reproducible in a supported release? If so, could you
please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging
information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 144178
Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes
button for attach
Just found a work around for 8.10. The Xorg "vesa" driver in 8.10 is not
working either for my SM710 card, but the kernel VESA frame buffer
driver works, by appending vga=0x317 to kernel boot arguments. This will
give me a 1024x768 virtual console.
Then in Xorg.conf, specify "fbdev" as the driver,
I have an old IBM Thinkpad with a Silicon Motion chip that has the same
problem. Running Xubuntu 8.04/8.10 the computer boots, X appears to
hang (all I get it a blank screen), with no way to access the virtual
terminal via the CTRL-ALT-F1 key sequence.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Si
See the same VT black problem on Hardy with SM720 and also the problem
h-gent-o have, after upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid.
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Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires modprobe
vga16fb fbcon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144178
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It seems something there is something fundamentally wrong/broken. I have
a Acer C100 TabletPC with SM720 lynx3dm silicon motion chipset. First I
installed the final Ubuntu 8.10 where installation was running well
until the reboot and where the gdm login should be there was just a
blank screen. I ga
** Also affects: xf86-video-siliconmotion
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires modprobe
vga16fb fbcon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144178
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Bugs
** Summary changed:
- Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode
+ Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires
modprobe vga16fb fbcon
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: New => Con
