Comment 182 for bug 301958

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" <email address hidden>
wrote:
> 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, without any hardware to test the result on. Besides, I'm no driver
developer, and learning-as-you-go is slow.. So don't hold your breath.
>
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> Title:
> [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards
>
> Status in X.Org X server:
> Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-sis” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
> New
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-sis” package in Debian:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> sis 671/771 driver is not available for Ubuntu but there is a working
> driver in the newest Mandriva. The driver in Mandriva is based on
> http://www.linuxconsulting.ro/xorg-drivers/ ( I think) .
>
> Not having the driver makes the installation of Ubuntu a PITA on
> laptops with sis 671/771 based integrated graphics card. Making the
> laptop usable requires playing with xorg.conf and module compilation
> or switching to Vesa 1280x768 mode deformed to fit 1280x800 LCD.
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