"You are not compiling the sis driver which compiles fine, you're
compiling a fork of it based off extremely old SIS source that needs
updating to support xserver 1.7 and is not supported at all in ubuntu."
Yeah it compiles fine it just doesn't work at all for 671/771 SiS cards.
2 Years and still
Anyway:
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-sis (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
well, fair enough, get us a bloody driver instead...
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Impossible to compile the sis video driver in Lucid amd64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572420
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Hi, this is a real PITA, see bug 301958 and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=95896
this card (771/671) is not detected and there is no bloody driver for it
on the kernel.
I was a provider of 32 and 64-bit karmic and Jaunty drivers on my site
because most of these good people can't compile
Why do you want to compile an old driver? Is the shipped driver not
working? What graphics card do you use exactly?
The upstream bug you linked does not deal with xserver-xorg-video-sis it
describes a problem while compiling xserver-xorg-video-tga maybe you are
mixing something up?
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Impossible
Hi
RH, correct, i am compiling an old driver. that is one of the 2 that work on
Karmic. included sis driver does not work at all.
GH, that is a 32-bit driver which I tried to compile under lucid...
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `sis6...@driver_man_suffix@', needed
by `all-am'. Stop.
in s
Let me have a guess...
sisimedia driver?
There is already a new version for Xorg Server used in Lucid... just google
around a bit ;)
I think this schould do the job (if you really mean sisimedia):
http://estebanordano.com.ar/sis-m671m672-driver-for-xorg-xserver-7-5-on-debian-sidux/
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Impossibl
You are not compiling the sis driver which compiles fine, you're
compiling a fork of it based off extremely old SIS source that needs
updating to support xserver 1.7 and is not supported at all in ubuntu.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-sis (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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