Bonjour Theodore, Thank you for reviving the laptop testing team mailing list!
Now that that's out of the way, I think I know what you're talking about when you say SiS screws up your VGA display. You did not make it clear what make/model laptop you currently have. I would also recommend you reply with the model of the video card in the laptop - you can get all this information by running this command in a terminal, and attaching the output from your home directory to the reply email: lspci -vvnn > ~/pci.id.medion I have an Acer and it has an AMD Turion in it, basically I have video issues as well. I thought I would try to help you out. Obviously Acer went the cheap route when equipping their laptops with video cards and passed the savings (and grief) along to their customers. Take a look at the following bugs which may describe what you are seeing. My friend and I can confirm these issues on the Aspire 3000/5000 series. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317658 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291294 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264769 I have tried contacting the maintainer of the driver, but have not gotten a response. I have also contacted Bryce Harrington - Ubuntu's lead X.org expert, who has taken a look at these bugs. All I can tell you is that I have had video problems with this card (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter [1039:6330]) only after Ubuntu 7.10 - so you can try the work around explained in these bugs (the sisfb option) or you can backup /home and go back to 7.10 which has flaws and has hit end of life recently (so is no longer getting security updates). http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/ Either way, event though I am a free software advocate, I would recommend Picasa over F-stop any day (I'm talking about quality here), and Ubuntu over Ubuntu Studio. If you have to get a cheap laptop that you can hide from those who may want to confiscate it, i would recommend a small netbook - under 1KG (and under $300) which you can pass along in a small bag with a thin camera. Get us some nice pictures! Hopefully some of the kids of the region holding up the ubuntu logo: the circle of friends. Hope this helps. Cheers and peace, -komputes Theodor Fruendt wrote: > Hi to everybody, > you might find this funny, but against all pro photographers > recommendations I want to take things seriously and try to give Ubuntu > Studio a try. > Working mainly on low budget laptops (I report from hostile regions and > socially unstable societies where confiscation of equipment is common). > So I can not drag a Ubuntu machine around. Currently I work on a Medion > AMD64, a cheap thing because the Accer found a new owner in Afghanistan. > However I came across this SiS thing which screws up my VGA Display. Due > to my lack of experience this seems not to be solved any soon unless > some one of you has time to send me some hints. > It is already tough to explain picture desk editors that I am not > willing to use Adobe products unless they are willing to increase, > instead reducing, their fees. Also, I'm pretty happy working with GIMP > and F-Spot instead of Photoshop and I-View oder Fotomechanic. > Being native German speaking, living in France, I'm would help with > translations and with evaluating in photo editing issues. > Cheers > > -- laptop-testing-team mailing list laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
