debian unstable sis driver does not work

[Michael Zech <keldrin@web.de>]

Hi everybody,

Since the last dist-upgrade of my debian unstable laptop system X didn't
come up again. The display flickered for a short time and then stayed
black, even if i switched to console mode again. The only way to get it
working in this stage was rebooting (console worked but i couldn't see
what i type).

I tried recompiling the packages (xserver-xorg and
xserver-xorg-video-sis), the error remained the same.

Now I'm using the testing versions of these packages without problems.

I don't know how I can help you figuring out what's the error, there was
nothing to be found in the logs. Only the CPU clock count was a little
bit strange (3*10^8 Mhz).

Write me what I can do, I hope it will work again soon

Michael