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Re: xfree86-sis -- needs patching?



On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:50:36PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
| > I have a laptop which doesn't work with the SiS X server included in
| > Debian.  It does, however, work when I compile and install the patched
| > version from the SiS web site.  (http://www.sis.com.tw)
| 
| The xserver-sis package is quite obsolete.
| 
| If you're using Debian 2.2, I suggest using xserver-svga; if you're using

Yes.  I have an SiS (6326, not a laptop) and that server worked.  For
me I had to specify the "no_accel" option or I got really weird
backgrounds and repaint problems.

| Debian's "testing" or "unstable" releases, I suggest xserver-xfree86.

X4 is _much_ better with my card (acceleration works).

-D



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