Hi! On Tue Aug 20, 2002 at 06:18:31PM +0200, the boisterous Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner@aon.at> wrote to me: > sis_dri needs sisfb -> in 4.2.0-0pre1v2 a nogo. Maybe I give new driver > versions a try and report it my possible success. Back again, I did some research with the updated drivers from Thomas Winischhofer: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml I reinstalled X 4.1 from woody (I did the switch to 4.2, because it had the same problems with dri) and turned dri off -> voila -> 4.1 drivers worked. But I saw strange random pixel distortion, when I moved my mouse and when the harddisk worked -> really strange. Then I tried following driver (I copied over woody default): http://www.webit.at/~twinny/sis/sis_drv.o_050902-2.tar.gz It is precompiled for XF4.1. According to Thomas Winischhofer it contains many bugfixes over default XF4.1 driver. And the pixel distortion went away. Source is here: http://www.webit.at/~twinny/sis/sis_drv_src_050902-2.tar.gz Should both work for XF4.1 and XF4.2. Quoting the webpage: Summary of changes since the release of XFree86 4.2 The SiS driver that comes with XFree86 4.2 is an older version of my driver. Since then, the following changes have been made (rough overview): * For the 300 series, the whole mode switching code was re-written * Support for 310/325 series was added (including 2D acceleration and Xv) * Support for the 30xB, 30xLV bridges was added * Support for the 630ST was added * LVDS support for the 310/325 series was added (for LCD panels up tp 1400x1050) * Chrontel 7019 support for the 310/325 series was added * Dual Head mode support for the 300 and the 310/325 series was added * For the 300 series, numerous bugs were fixed (Xv did not work on CRT2; Xv scaled the video incorrectly in some cases; OpenOffice.org and Mozilla revealed two bugs in the 2D accelerator; the TurboQueue could cause a machine hang; etc.) * The 2D accelerators on the 300 and 310/325 series now support transparent BitBlits * A bug for the 530 was fixed (hardware cursor) * New display modes for the 300 and 310/325 series were added * Xv support for the SiS300 was added * Support for I420, UYVY, RGB 555 and RGB 565 color space was added in Xv part (300 and 310/325 series) * Xv support for the 6326 was added (only works on some chip revisions) * Support for v4l (video4linux) was added in Xv part Can the updated driver go into the new XF4.2pre debs? Also found some dri stuff on the page. But I'll try this later and will report it to you. so long Thomas -- ___ Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. _/___\ - W. Richard Stevens ( ^ > Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner at aon dot at> / \ 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B (__\/_)_ http://members.aon.at/krennwallner/
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