Hello I have a SiS 671 video card and have downloaded a source driver to see if I can make it work ... I have installed a bunch of dependencies but the 'make config' command fails complaining abou a missing xf86Resources.h file
The below output of the make attempt: $./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ar... ar checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for cpp... /usr/bin/cpp checking if /usr/bin/cpp requires -undef... yes checking if /usr/bin/cpp requires -traditional... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking if XINERAMA is defined... yes checking if RANDR is defined... yes checking if RENDER is defined... yes checking if XV is defined... yes *checking if XF86MISC is defined... no* checking if DPMSExtension is defined... yes checking for XORG... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for /usr/include/xorg/dri.h... yes checking for /usr/include/xorg/sarea.h... yes checking for /usr/include/xorg/dristruct.h... yes checking whether to include DRI support... yes checking for DRI... yes checking for NONE/share/sgml/X11/defs.ent... no checking for linuxdoc... /usr/bin/linuxdoc checking for ps2pdf... /usr/bin/ps2pdf checking Whether to build documentation... no checking Whether to build pdf documentation... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/xvmc/Makefile config.status: creating man/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands $ make install Making install in src make[1]: Entrando no diretório `/home/rogerio/xf86-video-sis-imedia/src' /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri -g -O2 -MT init.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/init.Tpo -c -o init.lo init.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri -g -O2 -MT init.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/init.Tpo -c init.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/init.o In file included from init.h:60, from init.c:63: *sis.h:63:24: error: xf86_ansic.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado (file not found) sis.h:68:27: error: xf86Resources.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado (file not found) * In file included from init.h:60, from init.c:63: sis.h:988: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘pciVideoPtr’ init.c: In function ‘SiS_SetPitchCRT1’: init.c:3335: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘scrnPitch’ init.c: In function ‘SiS_SetPitchCRT2’: init.c:3347: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘scrnPitch’ init.c:3350: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VGAEngine’ init.c: In function ‘SiS_SetPitch’: init.c:3365: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags2’ init.c:3366: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VGAEngine’ init.c:3368: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VGAEngine’ init.c:3374: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c:3378: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c: In function ‘SiSBIOSSetMode’: init.c:3589: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c:3600: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c: In function ‘SiSBIOSSetModeCRT2’: init.c:3620: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘entityPrivate’ init.c:3633: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c:3639: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c:3661: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘DualHeadMode’ init.c: In function ‘SiSBIOSSetModeCRT1’: init.c:3799: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘entityPrivate’ init.c:3806: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘VBFlags’ init.c:3888: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘DualHeadMode’ init.c:3904: error: ‘struct <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘DualHeadMode’ make[1]: ** [init.lo] Erro 1 make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/rogerio/xf86-video-sis-imedia/src' make: ** [install-recursive] Erro 1 -- As seen above the XF86MISC is not defined, but I have the x11proto-xfmisc-dev package installed: $ aptitude search x11proto aptitude search x11proto i A x11proto-bigreqs-dev - X11 Big Requests extension wire protocol i A x11proto-composite-dev - X11 Composite extension wire protocol i x11proto-core-dev - X11 core wire protocol and auxiliary heade i A x11proto-damage-dev - X11 Damage extension wire protocol i A x11proto-dmx-dev - X11 Distributed Multihead X extension wire i A x11proto-dri2-dev - X11 DRI2 extension wire protocol i A x11proto-fixes-dev - X11 Fixes extension wire protocol i x11proto-fonts-dev - X11 font extension wire protocol i x11proto-gl-dev - X11 OpenGL extension wire protocol i A x11proto-input-dev - X11 Input extension wire protocol i A x11proto-kb-dev - X11 XKB extension wire protocol i x11proto-print-dev - X11 Printing extension (Xprint) wire proto i x11proto-randr-dev - X11 RandR extension wire protocol i A x11proto-record-dev - X11 Record extension wire protocol i x11proto-render-dev - X11 Render extension wire protocol i A x11proto-resource-dev - X11 Resource extension wire protocol i A x11proto-scrnsaver-dev - X11 Screen Saver extension wire protocol i x11proto-video-dev - X11 Video extension wire protocol i A x11proto-xcmisc-dev - X11 XC-Miscellaneous extension wire protoc i A x11proto-xext-dev - X11 various extension wire protocol i A x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev - X11 Big Fonts extension wire protocol i x11proto-xf86dga-dev - X11 Direct Graphics Access extension wire i x11proto-xf86dri-dev - X11 DRI extension wire protocol *i x11proto-xf86misc-dev - X11 XFree86-Miscellaneous extension wire p* i A x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev - X11 Video Mode extension wire protocol i x11proto-xinerama-dev - X11 Xinerama extension wire protocol Anyone got any clues as to what is wrong ?? Thanks Rogerio