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? -- Impossible to compile the sis video driver in Lucid amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572420 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs