Re: XGI driver does not load after squeeze update

[Ted Llewellyn <llewell@frontiernet.net>]

  Yes, that does work.  I had switched to vesa to get it working again, but specifying "sis" starts the xserver the way it was before the update.

  Thanks,
Ted
----- Original Message -----
From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
To: llewell@frontiernet.net
Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:51:03 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: XGI driver does not load after squeeze update

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:03:58 +0000, llewell@frontiernet.net wrote:

>   After the update to the xerver-xorg-video-sis package in sqeeze on 9-13 my X does not work.  I'm getting this is the Xorg.0.log:
> 
> (--) PCI:*(0:6:7:0) 18ca:0020:1028:01ae XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) rev 0, Mem @ 0xfc000000/33554432, 0xfe5c0000/262144, I/O @ 0x0000dc80/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
[...]
> (==) Matched xgi for the autoconfigured driver
> (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
> (II) LoadModule: "xgi"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xgi
> (II) UnloadModule: "xgi"
> (EE) Failed to load module "xgi" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
If you add 'Driver "sis"' to xorg.conf's Device section, do things start
working?

Cheers,
Julien