Re: XFree86 SiS driver - unofficial .debs available
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
>
> There are (experimental and unofficial) Debian packages available for
> the SiS X driver and sisctrl, the SiS Display Control Panel.
>
> Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> For stable:
> deb http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/stable ./
>
> For unstable:
> deb http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/unstable ./
>
> For apt-src usage:
>
> stable: deb-src http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/stable ./
> unstable: deb-src http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/unstable ./
>
> Testing should work with the unstable versions.
>
> Basically, there are two packages provided:
>
> -) sisxdriver works similar to msttcorefonts: It downloads and installs
> the (then current) X driver from my website. The package does not
> contain the driver itself.
>
> -) sisctrl contains the sisctrl utility.
>
> As for the source, you may want to use apt-src; two packages are
> provided, sisxdriver and sisctrl. sisxdriver does not contain the X
> driver source, but the source of the installation package. sisctrl
> contains the complete source for sisctrl and can be built by
> debian/rules binary.
>
> For stable, there is only one "binary" package available: sisxdriver.
> Since I don't have a system running stable, I cannot provide binary
> packages for stable otherwise. sisctrl must hence be built from source
> (or you can try the version for unstable, perhaps it works).
>
> For unstable, sisxdriver and sisctrl are both available as binary and as
> source packages.
>
> The XFree86 SiS driver binary is originally contained in the
> xserver-xfree86 package. Installing the sisxdriver package will at the
> same time install a "diversion" of the original SiS XFree86 driver,
> meaning that an eventual update of xserver-xfree86 will not overwrite
> the driver installed by sisxdriver.
>
> These packages are relatively new and I'd welcome testing results (per
> private mail)
I'm going to install debian on someone's laptop next week or so. It has
a SiS card. Why should I use your drivers instead of the XFree86 ones?
What is the origin of your drivers?
TIA,
David
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