[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-07-12 Thread Pander
** Tags added: 12.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-05 Thread Pander
What is an alternative to try? What made it work by default on 10.04 LTS? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-04 Thread Pander
No that does not work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread komputes
Pander said: "Would be nice to know how to set it by default. Anyone?" Try the following command to launch the Multimedia Systems Selector: $ gstreamer-properties Under the Video Tab, for Default Output select "X Windows System (X11/XShm/Xv)". Please let us know if this works. -- You received t

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread Pander
It is also important to set it on system level because many applications, such as Skype, do not over such a wide variety of video interface if at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3019

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread Pander
Thanks it works. Would be nice to know how to set it by default. Anyone? Can that also be included in the readme.txt of the driver? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [need

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread YoSeQuienSoy
I can't remember how to change it by default, but you can change it on your video player preferences (VLC, SMPlayer, etc) 2012/5/3 Pander <301...@bugs.launchpad.net> > How do I do that? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.laun

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread Pander
How do I do that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://b

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread YoSeQuienSoy
@Pander You need to change video output to X11. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards To manage notifications a

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-05-03 Thread Pander
This driver worked great on 10.04 LTS and now again on 12.04 LTS. There is only one issue with the latter. I'm not sure if it is the driver but the experts here can certainly tell me how to analyze it. The GNOME shell and Unity shell crashes and restarts with gdm whenever I am playing movies with v

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2012-03-16 Thread Alexander
** Also affects: archlinux Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards To

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-18 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
moderator, comments #190-191 are spam, please remove, as well as this comment. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-18 Thread Manuel Fonte
Solution since 10.10 very easy. ( assim para que complicar J. Oliveira com todos essas manigancias) http://diversosassuntosbrasil.blogspot.com/ Tks Manuel *INFO* No âmbito do serviço "Pape

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-18 Thread Manuel Fonte
Hi Solution http://diversosassuntosbrasil.blogspot.com/ Tks in the right, SIS 671/672 to many distros Manuel *INFO* No âmbito do serviço "Paperless Office" agradecemos que toda a correspondência

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-17 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
hi please email me, this is a bug report space not a helpdesk, sorry bout saying it, i'm ready to help but don't want others to be bugged, and meawhile get the output of #uname -a that will tell you if u are running 32 or 64... cheers antonio -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-17 Thread deetee
Thanks Antonio There was no xorg.conf in my build, so I used one from your pages. As for my architecture, I am now completely confused. As far as I know I am on an intel Core Duo and that's 32bit. I installed the 32bit drivers. But grep lm /proc/cpuinfo gives me lm in the return, which google te

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-17 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello, Jay Check that you installed the right driver for your architecture (32 or 64 bit) and that you have copied a fresh xorg.conf as the one in my pages. The code for the drivers in 10.04 is slightly different from the one I use now, but what you describe seems to point to some oddity in xorg.c

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-06-16 Thread deetee
Hi I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a system with Sis 671 (Fujitsu Esprimo v5515) [to get round a problem in hardware with another distro... that problem is fixed but...] My display is horrible - steady but not correctly dimensioned. I have followed some of the train above, in particular I h

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Lee
Lolz, thanks to compiled driver ;) will always bugging all sis m671 owner everytime ubuntu have a new release. Wish the patch that timo submit to FD will be approved. On May 3, 2011 10:11 PM, "Antonio J. de Oliveira" wrote: > Hello all > > I just placed 32 and 64-bit versions of a driver made in a

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello all I just placed 32 and 64-bit versions of a driver made in a hurry because I am in lack of time referenced at the usual place: http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php and http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/pt/software/xorg.php Hope it helps, with a little more time i will g

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-05-02 Thread Pawel Jasnos
Timo - would it not be possible to put this driver in universe, as a service for users who still have this chip? I think it will become less relevant with time as I've not seen any newer laptops/netbooks having using SiS 671, so it might just happen that when it is finally merged with the FD.o,

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Lee
Well I understand it, but there's someone in debian bugs page that want to take care about this issue. Maybe I will told him just like what you told me in this mail. Thanks tino Best Regards, Martin Lee sent from android device On Mar 15, 2011 5:56 PM, "Timo Aaltonen" wrote: > It's pointless to

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-03-15 Thread Timo Aaltonen
It's pointless to dump the driver from Mandriva as-is. The right way forward is to split the (huge, ~2MB) diff to upstream X.Org -sis driver in logical pieces and push them upstream for review and inclusion. I already started, but it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to get it going, withou

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-02-28 Thread Martin Lee
Here's an update from debian bugs, Richard Braakman planning to got this driver working and combined it to xf86-driver-sis if it's possible. here's the source of this information http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546741#90 -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-02-22 Thread Martin Lee
There's an update from Mandriva source * Wed Feb 09 2011 Paulo Ricardo Zanoni 0.9.1-1.20091203.8mdv2011.0 + Revision: 637005 - Update driver to new API -- Why xorg team won't look at this? Did you notice that's there's still quite lot of

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-02-19 Thread Martin Lee
Is there any chance from xorg team to re-pack this driver for next xorg- server release?? There's quite lot of sis user out there, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-02-06 Thread Martin Lee
Ok, the driver is break and not working for natty, i tested it on alpha2 release. Will try to re-compile the driver and see if it can work. It said that the driver didn't match the current xorg.server also can't load ABI Module -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-02-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xorg-server Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards -- ubuntu-bu

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Lee
Hmm... no activities lately. Is there any big difference for the further release of natty? It's use xorg 1.10 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Bug Watch Updater < 301...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > ** Changed in: xorg-server > Importance: Medium => Unknown > > -- > You received this bug notifi

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2011-01-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xorg-server Importance: Medium => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards -- ubuntu-bu

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-21 Thread Djalma B. Martins
Em 21-12-2010 10:14, Martin Lee escreveu: > Do you know where i can get sisimedia source? try googling but no > luck.. > > http://mandriva.c3sl.ufpr.br/devel/2011.0/SRPMS/main/release/x11-driver-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-1.20091203.5mdv2010.1.src.rpm -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-21 Thread Martin Lee
Hi antonio, Well i guess i knew why i never receive any email lately... there's a problem with my hosting again that's why i didn't receive your warning.. Anyway i will take look with the source now... thanks... Do you know where i can get sisimedia source? try googling but no luck.. --

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-21 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi The only news is that I posted the code on December 7 on: http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen/bin/xorg-driver-sis671-0.9.2.tar.gz and sent you a mail on the same day warning you of that... Cheers Antonio -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-21 Thread Martin Lee
any news?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 Title: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com http

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-04 Thread Martin Lee
Well i guess we can't expect too much for this driver quality anyway. At least it can render fast and well also can display a correct native resolution it's enough i guess.. also with capability for basic compositing. It has been confirmed that sisimedia_drv.so is work with Fedora 14, so i assume

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-04 Thread Pander
Ah, when previously described situation occurs, advanced rendering such as video embedded in web browser results in a blue rectangle on the laptop screen only and correct rendering on the external screen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-04 Thread Pander
Sometimes (!) after starting up my laptop from hybernation from a session with external screen and vertical stripes on laptop screen, the new session displays on both laptop screen and external screen. Probably because I reconnected the external screen at a certain moment while the laptop got out o

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Lee
@antonio Ok, waiting to hear a good news from you. Can you help me to take a look regarding diff between sisimedia & sis671 driver? -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-30 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello all @mantas, thanks for the info, I republished all binaries aith all unneeded symbols removed. You may very easily do this on your own files with Linux stripper, the equivelent of the windoze I was talking about: strip --strip-unneeded sis671_drv.so I didn't do any .deb on purpose my syst

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Lee
@antonio Hello brother it's seem that you bussy lately. I'm waiting for the source and maybe you can send to my Gmail address since my 7redz account still under hosting migrating stuff :) anyway please take a loook on my review in the post and hope it can be good for comparison and troubleshoot -

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Lee
@mantas so you just only make a .deb package from Antonie driver then. Well actually i try the sisimedia_drv.so and then here's some result that can be reviewed for future patch / release / discussion. Pros : - sisimedia_drv.so in have a high compatibility and can't see when need to repatch it.

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Lee
xorg.conf ( Antonio / Tpurch Mod ) ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/301958/+attachment/1749427/+files/xorg.conf -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
@Pander, greetings, your 2 first assumptions are correct, smaller in size, smaller in memory usage yes but faster in processing not really. On properly-built systems debug symbols are invoked when somebody need those at the debbugging phase. Briefly reviewed the code since 8.10, if the debug stuff

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello, I have been out on another non-profit, making a conference on advanced audio and electroacoustics, there I am a pro, not in video...@tpurch, it seems as I told Martin in private I used some branch of your published code on the last version with a few modifications i did. The code used before

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Pander
Building without debug hooks and with optimisations /should/ make the build smaller in size, smaller in memory usage and faster in processing. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you a

Re: [Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 06:49:34PM -, Martin Lee wrote: > Would it work also with 1280x800? and can tell me the difference > with sisimedia driver? < in performance / etc > Drivers in deb package are from http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php , I think they should work with

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread gh1234
As far as I am concerned, it's the exact same. He compiled the driver which was published by Antonio some time ago. The nice thing is, that he made a deb package which makes installing a lot easier + he didn't made a debug build which makes the whole driver a lot smaller (and maybe faster but I c

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Martin Lee
@mantas Would it work also with 1280x800? and can tell me the difference with sisimedia driver? < in performance / etc > -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
I've packaged sis671/sis771 drivers from http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php with "blacklist vga16fb", postinst script for updating initramfs and xorg.conf config file into .deb package, see attached deb file or http://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Baltix/Baltix-Ubuntu-packages/lucid/SIS-6

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread Pander
This explains the flashing lines on primary screen when using also an external monitor: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsispart1.shtml#13 Reducing resolution and/or refresh rate and/or color depth is no options since this is already at an all time low. Perhaps refresh rate could to the trick. Ot

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-29 Thread tpurch
Hi Antonio, I notice that you have links to compiled version of sis671 driver for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) do you have the src code available? if not can you let me know which source code your working from so I can obtain a copy...Many Thanks. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/77

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-28 Thread Martin Lee
Yeah i hope it can be a new start even only for 2D "official" support. Ubuntu will got more love <3 -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-28 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello I'm happy somebody will be working on this, at last... Thanks& good luck, I'll continue to hold strings until this bug is solved. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-28 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-sis (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-28 Thread Gintautas
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #546741 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546741 ** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-sis (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546741 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- [needs-packaging] no working

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-28 Thread Gintautas
** Also affects: baltix Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Lee
@Pander Well since SIS is lack of capability so don't force yourself to make it work perfectly for 2monitor. For me also always see a glitch not even once when using the modification driver. Use 1 Monitor is quite good already and try to maximize the use of workspace so you can save your time an

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-30 Thread Pander
For 1280x800, it remains working :) 1) As for my previous questions in comment 149, do other people also experience lines on their laptop screen when an external monitor is attached from boot time? 2) Would it be fairly simple to also support disabling laptop screen via laptop keyboard, which is

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-29 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello Upon a discussion with Martin Lee and a few subsequent tests both on a 1366x768 and aain on 1280x800 I modified the drivers for Lucid and Maverick that I have on http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php The 64-bit drivers were tested by me on a 1280x800 and are identical to the

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-18 Thread Pander
With a fresh Maverick installation without this driver, my laptop screen is disabled when I boot with an external screen. After installing this driver, and booting again with external screen, which works fine, my laptop screen shows many coloured vertical lines in a reasonable static way that can b

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-14 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi The cycle is completed, UNTESTED 32-bit driver published. Cheers Antonio -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-14 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi Yesterday I configured the test laptop where I instaled 32-bit xubuntu 10.10, and I hope today I will be able to finish the process by compalinng the driver. A lot of people are complaining about the incompatibility of this kernel (apparently not the distro itself) with some sata controllers, m

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Cloete
My man. Hello from 10.10. I tested Maverick with your driver and tada. Then I braved an upgrade to 10.10 from Lucid. Copied the new 64bit driver into place and Bob's your uncle. 1280x800. Good job. Cheers -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-13 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Thanks, Pander, corrected it. Yesterday I tried until midnight to compile and test the 32-bit driver on an external USB disk, no way, I can't do a proper install on a Maverick 32-bit cd (gnome) on a usb disk as I did with the 64-bit. Even the 32-bit usb image created by the standard ubuntu install

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-13 Thread Pander
Antonio, There is a small typo on you website, this: For Lucid 10.10 64-bit click here to get a driver I compiled. should be this: For Maverick 10.10 64-bit click here to get a driver I compiled. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-12 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello again, friends The 64-bit driver and instructions for Maverick are available at: http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php This driver was tested, hd movies perform far better than in lucid. check this link for a screenshot: http://ajoliveira.com/images/maverick.jpg I hope t

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-12 Thread mistikkia
I still have this problem (ie get only 800x600) using a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535 with [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter. I understand there is a collection of drivers here : http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/index.php?page=Downloads I tried a few of them, but they do not

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-12 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello I already did a preliminary trial with Maverick and an usb disk, but I ended up with grub rescue, install touched my standard hd, I cannot understand why ;-) Solved the issue and will come back to it, hope some results will be available soon. A little more patience. Cheers Antonio -- [ne

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Cloete
Hey, Thanks, and I understand. When you do have a working 10.10 driver if you could please just add a comment here so that we know. Cheers -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-05 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello That is my intention, in spite my free time is not what it used to be just a few weeks ago, I assume now it s negative :-) I will try as soon as Maverick comes out, and I assure you I won't change to Maverick in my working laptop. I need some rest, Lucid had too many bugs for a production ma

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-10-05 Thread Martin Cloete
Hi Antonio, Great effort. I'm currently using your driver for Lucid. Just to confirm. Will you be compiling a 64bit version for Maverick for this card? Cheers -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notific

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-09-30 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello As soon as Maverick leaves the beta state, I will try to add it there. But I would like to see it compiled on a stable release as I have done with the precedent versions. I have already received a version for testing purposes. All the best -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 6

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-09-29 Thread Pander
Since it has been declined for Maverick, could someone build it for 32 and 64 bit once Maverick is out and offer it to http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php What needs to be done to get this into Ubuntu (Natty) or is this up to x.org to include it in their releases? -- [needs-pac

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-09-03 Thread Pander
I hope that after more than two years, this will be packaged for Maverick. What are possible risks that the nomination gets declined and how to prevent those? -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-07-14 Thread gh1234
I found a trick to make plymouth look really good on sis671 maybe this could work for you too. (I posted it at ubuntu forums so I will just link it:) http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9587662&postcount=498 Hope that helps you. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video c

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-15 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi, Marcos Sorry I missed your question...It wasn't supposed to be... It's 771/671 specific. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-15 Thread Marcos Felipe Mello
I tested the sis671 driver and it doesn't work with SiS 761GX chip. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-14 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Sorry... http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen/bin/xorg-driver-sis671-0.9.1-fixed- source.tar.gz -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-14 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi Alex This was theone I used: ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen/bin/xorg-driver-sis671-0.9.1-fixed- source.tar.gz cheers Antonio -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-14 Thread Alex
@Antonio J. de Oliveira: Where I can get driver source ? -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-08 Thread Marcos Felipe Mello
Is the sis671 driver compatible with SiS 761GX chip? Because the native X.Org sis driver is awful... crappy performance plus glitches when playing videos. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-06-02 Thread Marcos Felipe Mello
Hey Ubuntu devs, take a look at this driver please. Ideally upstream would fix the sis driver problems, but unfortunately this doesn't apparent to happen anytime soon... -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-17 Thread jcglt
@gh1234, Thanks, I did it already several times but it does only one thing : - without this blacklisting of fb16 the screen is flickering ; - after blacklisting and sudo update-initramfs -u it becomes steady but totally garbled and still unreadable. I read with interest the https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-17 Thread gh1234
jcglt: Check out https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/539582 (especially #3!) I think this could fix your problem... even if there is some strange text in plymouth left while shutting down the computer... Every tty etc worked fine after the workaround for me. -- [needs-packaging

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-16 Thread jcglt
Hi this driver sis671 works well for me and provides a nice 1280*800 resolution BUT I cannot boot from grub2 in "recovery mode" nor make a CTRL+ALT+F1 to 6 to get a "tty terminal", the only thing I get then is a flickering and unreadable terminal. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 67

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin Leighton
Hi I have installed this driver to my laptop today and the resolution is very good (1280x800) however I find that the video refresh rate for streaming video is very slow in full screen mode. Perhaps only 2fps?but the audio is still good. Playing video locally i.e. DVD is excellent. If I can give

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-11 Thread luca
I installed 32bit driver and it works perfectly! Thanks to Antonio J de Oliveira and Gh1234 :)) I hope this will be a step for official packaging in Ubuntu. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-07 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Boas Permissions are ok, just send me a mail to my homepage mail address (it's on the main page) and we will ry to sort this out in private. Antonio -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-07 Thread Onilton Maciel
@Antonio When I try to download http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen/bin/sis_driver_32-bit_10.04.tar.gz I get 403 forbidden. I think you have to change permissions. BR -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-07 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
The problem I have of broken display at start-up has nothing to do with acpi. It happens after I for some reason running w* (to communicate with a serial device after its pipe was broken on virtualbox). The machine is multi-boot, and every time I run w* now, I have to e2fsck my boot disk. In spite

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-04 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
I edited my /boot/grub/ menu.lst so as to turn acpi=off and will keep on watching this. More people complain they can't see a thing with the lucid install disk, and I have a frozen display toshiba a10 after lucid upgrade, maybe there is a connection. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-04 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
The driver we both compiled has an intermittent flaw, happened to me this morning and I heard this before: LoadModule: "sis671" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/old_sis/sis671_drv.so dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/old_sis/sis671_drv.so: undefined symbol: resVgaIoShared (EE) Faile

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-04 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Was looking at xserver-xorg-video-sis-0.10.2 { PCI_CHIP_SIS670, "[M]670/[M]770[GX]" }, { PCI_CHIP_SIS671, "[M]671/[M]771[GX]" }, were just wiped out from the code, these chipsets are just not supported, this is not a bug, we are talking about a broken driver. It will take some work t

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
The 32-bit driver is now recompiled as a Lucid native and was re- published. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
The 64-bit compiled driver works as expected. -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Yes, you're right, with full sudo make install it compiled (sudo make didn't succeeded in creating the libraries) and well, destination is just a question of configure prefix.With the second one, compiling ok on karmic, no. But at least one is finishing, so later on I will do it on 32-bit and try t

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread gh1234
OK, the first should work even if there is an error make[2]: *** No rule to make target `sis6...@driver_man_suffix@', needed by `all-am'. Stop. This is no fatal error. Try sudo make install in the directory then the driver files should be copied to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis671_drv.*

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hi Jonas With the sources you used the failure is as described below: ajolive...@luna:~/main/temp/sis/xorg-driver-sis671-0.9.1$ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ajoliveira/main/temp/sis/xorg-driver-sis671-0.9.1' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ajo

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread gh1234
What is the output of the failing make command? The makefile seems to lack some rules but this does not affect the success of what you did ;) I used the source from the blogpost already posted a few times without made any changes to it. I will recompile it from scratch because I wanted to install

[Bug 301958] Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards

2010-05-03 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Copied 32 and 64-bit drivers to my xorg page http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php with, of course the proper credits for the authors... -- [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301958 You received this bug notification b

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