On 29.09.2013 07:34, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: >>>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau >>>> <jcris...@debian.org>wrote: >>>>> (...) >>>>> xserver-xorg-video-sis >>>>> (...) >>> >>> The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufacturers of >>> relatively expensive micro PeeCees (EzGo, Jadetec, etc.), which were >>> essentially notebook hardware crammed into a small desktop case. Here's >>> a link with good pics: >>> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/smallest,530-2.html >>> and see also http://www.snotmonkey.com/work/ezgo/ for detailed specs. >>> It's based on the P4, and I've got one of them. Case has the footprint >>> of a "shuttle", but is about half the height. If I *could* switch video >>> cards, I'd do it in a heartbeat because SiS video cards have given me >>> nothing >>> but grief through the years. >>> >>> In the "unsolved wontfix" ubuntu bug list for the driver, mention is >>> made of the fact XAA support went bye-bye, and the attempted use of EXA >>> causes looping segfaults on X server startup. Only current workaround >>> is to disable acceleration. Truly a case of "bad breath is better than >>> no breath". >> >> This sounds like a good reason to remove it, unless both vesa and fbdev >> also fail on this hardware. > > (k)ubuntu's "plymouth" can't figure out a supported mode for a graphical > boot, so I'm guessing vesa and fbdev fail worse than sis. Only way to > see anything besides a blank screen during boot is to tell grub not to > do the whole splash screen thing. Installs from scratch on this machine > are "interesting."
plymouth has no use for the X driver, so issues with plymouth should be shared by all use cases. -- t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/524ae0bf.3040...@ubuntu.com
