XFree *working* on Laptop with SiS630 (: !!!!!!
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:50:38AM -0400, Bernard Julewsky wrote:
> hello,
> I have the same problem as you described in the debian-laptop
> mailinglist.
> the LCD panel flickers and is splitted into 4 parts.
> I don't use Debian, I use the Slackware distrib. I've tried with XF4.03 and XF3.3.6 - also tried just like you with the original X-server from
> the SiS homepage. anytime nearly the same horrible result.
> now my hope: did you find in the meantime a solution for this problem?
> please let me know, if you are a step ahead in the right direction.
> I would be very glad to get a (positiv *g*) answer.
>
> thanks in advance
> beju.
YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!
There is a solution I founded by chance a few weeks ago. I
sincerely apologize for not telling it you all as soon as possible
(lack of time is the reason), I guess I should be excommunicated from
the Emacs church because of not sharing this before :) Thanks for
remembering me the trouble.
The configuration I use does not provide pure perfection, but
is all I need, and, believe me, makes you very happy after having
resigned to go on without X. I founded it thanks to a vncclient I
launched by mistake: it displayed the first human-visible X screen on
my 14.1" TFT (the external monitor output works perfectly without any
patch).
Down here I give you all the necessary steps, let me know
if it works on your laptops.
I have been able to get a 640x400 physical / 640x480 virtual
X screen, with 16 bits depth, and with only a minor problem: the
screen is slighty shifted to the upper-left corner, so I cannot see a
few pixels from the left and up sides; but it is far better than
seeing nothing.
* I use XFree 4.0a (patched by SiS, in
http://www.sis.com.tw/support/download/linux.htm), following the
instructions given at SiS site. (In fact, it can be upgraded to the
latest XFree availabe, I describe this at the end of this post, since
it is not necessary.)
* `lspci -vvv' says that my SiS 630 card is
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2202
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
BIST result: 00
Region 0: Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 2: I/O ports at a000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=15 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
* And I think the key point is that the patch from SiS must be
suitable only for earlier revisions, so you need to do the following
workaround:
* I enforce XFree to use only 1MB (VideoRam 1024) (hence the
640x400 physical resolution and 16 bits depth restriction --well, you
can reach 24 bits at the expense of limiting virtual resolution to
640x400, but this is very annoying). It seems that new revisions
changed the distribution of the memory banks in such a way that the
first 1MB is more or less compatible with the cards supported by the
patch. (other resolutions imply the horrible screen splitting AFAIK)
* The magical XF86Config-4 I use is attached. Enjoy it!
<Upgrading XFree>
As said above, you can more or less upgrade your XFree, which
can be useful if you are running debian unstable. As far as I know,
you can get XFree 4.0.3 working provided that after upgrading you
replace the following files with the ones from the 4.0a:
tar -zxvf backup-X40a.tar.gz -C / usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libxaa.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a \
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(Well, this is ugly, since a few core modules are kept frozen from
4.0a, but it solves some headaches if you are used to apt-get upgrade
your system)
</Upgrading XFree>
Hope this helps. If you find it works, sending this recipe to
the gnu/linux laptop howtos would be very helpful. I wonder if this
settings could be improved, nevertheless, I am quite happy with it and
I would not ask for more. I also wonder if the XFree folks are going
to merge the patch from SiS into their code for the next releases,
since it seems to be necessary to get LCD working.
Enjoy your LCD!
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# Driver "spaceorb"
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# Option "MinY" "15372"
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# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection
#
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen1"
# Driver "elo2300"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "231"
# Option "MaxX" "3868"
# Option "MinY" "3858"
# Option "MaxY" "272"
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# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonThreshold" "17"
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# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
# The identifier line must be present.
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
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# DotClock 25.175
# HTimings 640 664 760 800
# VTimings 480 491 493 525
# EndMode
# These two are equivalent
# ModeLine "1024x768i" 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace
# Mode "1024x768i"
# DotClock 45
# HTimings 1024 1048 1208 1264
# VTimings 768 776 784 817
# Flags "Interlace"
# EndMode
# This is a set of standard mode timings. Modes that are out of monitor spec
# are automatically deleted by the server (provided the HorizSync and
# VertRefresh lines are correct), so there's no immediate need to
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# monitor). With these modes, the best standard mode that your monitor
# and video card can support for a given resolution is automatically
# used.
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# If your chipset does not support doublescan, you get a 'squashed'
# resolution like 320x400.
# If a monitor has DPMS support, that can be indicated here. This will
# enable DPMS when the montor is used with drivers that support it.
# Option "dpms"
# If a monitor requires that the sync signals be superimposed on the
# green signal, the following option will enable this when used with
# drivers that support it. Only a relatively small range of hardware
# (and drivers) actually support this.
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EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section "Device"
# The Identifier must be present.
# Identifier "SIS VGA"
# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
# Driver "sis"
# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
# Chipset "generic"
# Various other lines can be specified to override the driver's automatic
# detection code. In most cases they are not needed.
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# Various option lines can be added here as required. Some options
# are more appropriate in Screen sections, Display subsections or even
# Monitor sections.
# Option "hw cursor" "off"
Identifier "SIS VGA"
Driver "sis"
VideoRam 1024
# Option "hw cursor" "off"
# Option "no_accel" "on"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections.
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
# The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present
Identifier "Screen SIS"
Device "SIS VGA"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
# The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x400"
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 640 480
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "simple layout"
Screen "Screen SIS"
InputDevice "Mouse1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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