SiS 771/671 Mirage 3 Video Drivers

[ajoliveira]

Hello

After fighting with compiling incompatibilities and with the precious help of Jonas Schwabe here is the usual collection of 32 and 64-bit sis671/771 Lucid drivers

[jozsefpeitli]

Thank you, It was perfect for me!

[dekoderek]

After fighting with compiling incompatibilities and with the precious help of Jonas Schwabe here is the usual collection of 32 and 64-bit sis671/771 Lucid drivers

I doesn't work for me If you could help me having it running I would be thankful.

This is what I did.

I deleted my xorg.conf, copied your drivers and run the system. It started in 800x600 and probably with VESA (see http://download.dekoderek.net/sis-on...orgconf_at_all).

I stopped gdm and run Xorg -configure (see http://download.dekoderek.net/sis-on...-Xorgconfigure). All seemed good so far. Then I rebooted the system and got big message "No valid modes found - check VertRefresh/HorizSync" (see http://download.dekoderek.net/sis-on..._with_xorgconf).

I tried some combinations adding something using cvt (Modeline and Modes) or adding VertRefresh/HorizSync from your example, also using your example xorg.conf, always more less same result. Which I also had before with others drivers.

The best I can do for now is VESA driver running 1024x768 with any xorg.conf and just VertRefresh/HorizSync values.

I use laptop Asus K50c with 1366x768 nominal resolution. And I would really appreciate any help I could get because I really need it running. It's new laptop and newly installed system (10.04).

BTW, why cvt and gtf always change 1366x768 to 1368x768? Will it run on my screen?

[kilosan]

Is there a script of driver for Ubuntu 10.04 32bit like in 9.10 where you just double click and it works?

The gdm stop dont work for me since it flickers. I guess i'll hold for 10.04 for 2 month then.

[dekoderek]

The gdm stop dont work for me since it flickers. I guess i'll hold for 10.04 for 2 month then.

The other day I run any graphics at any res (could be vesa driver and 800x600) and run update-initramfs -u and ever since then I've got my tty working without flickering and can use gdm stop normally

[ajoliveira]

Please, before installing, read the readme.txt provided on each archive. It will save you a lot of frustrated efforts. The os does not detect the board. You have to tell it on xorg.conf which board you have. On the page you have a ready-to download xorg.conf. No script is supplied but the process is well documented. Nothing guarantees that the drivers will work with your computer, those are just provided as is. The 64-bit driver worked for me. I didn't test the 32-bit but I have good references to it. Check if you don't get an error message complaining of the driver not being found at the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/old_sis directory, in that case you must copy it there, it was the case with me.

[dekoderek]

@ajoliveira, I read the info on your page, the readme.txt file, checked your xorg.conf, did everything I found there and more and it didn't work out for me. If you have any idea what could be the cause (I posted logs earlier), please let me know.

Thanks!

[ajoliveira]

I will replace the 32-bit library by a natively lucid compiled one asap, just in case...please be patient, but as was with the previous driver, on some computers it didn't work at all...well, if it works in at least 50% of the cases, I will be very happy

[ajoliveira]

this is what I get on /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) LoadModule: "sis671"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/old_sis/sis671_drv.so
(II) Module sis671: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 0.8.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) SIS: driver for SiS chipsets: SIS5597/5598, SIS530/620,
SIS6326/AGP/DVD, SIS300/305, SIS630/730, SIS540, SIS315, SIS315H,
SIS315PRO/E, SIS550, SIS650/M650/651/740, SIS330(Xabre),
SIS[M]661[F|M]X/[M]741[GX]/[M]760[GX]/[M]761[GX]/662, SIS340,
[M]670/[M]770[GX], [M]671/[M]771[GX]
(II) SIS: driver for XGI chipsets: Volari Z7 (XG20),
Volari V3XT/V5/V8/Duo (XG40/XG42)
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for sis671
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset [M]671/[M]771[GX] found
(II) SIS(0): SiS driver (2006/10/17-1, compiled for X.org 1.7.6.0)
(II) SIS(0): Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> and others
(II) SIS(0): *** See http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml
(II) SIS(0): *** for documentation, updates and a Premium Version.
(II) SIS(0): RandR rotation support not available in this version.
(II) SIS(0): Dynamic modelist support not available in this version.
(II) SIS(0): Screen growing support not available in this version.
(II) SIS(0): Advanced Xv video blitter not available in this version.
(II) SIS(0): Advanced MergedFB support not available in this version.
(--) SIS(0): sisfb not found
(--) SIS(0): Relocated I/O registers at 0x9000
(II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
(II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
(II) SIS(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(**) SIS(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) SIS(0): RGB weight 888
(==) SIS(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(WW) SIS(0): Could not find/read video BIOS
(==) SIS(0): Color HW cursor is enabled
(II) SIS(0): Using VRAM command queue, size 512k
(==) SIS(0): Hotkey display switching is enabled
(==) SIS(0): SiSCtrl utility interface is disabled
(II) SIS(0): For information on SiSCtrl, see
http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml#sisctrl
(==) SIS(0): X server will not keep DPI constant for all screen sizes
(==) SIS(0): DRI enabled
(II) SIS(0): Checking OS for SSE support is not supported in this version of X.org
(II) SIS(0): If your OS supports SSE, set the option "UseSSE" to "on".
(--) SIS(0): 262144K shared video RAM (UMA)
(--) SIS(0): DRAM type: DDR SDRAM
(--) SIS(0): Memory clock: 596.582 MHz
(--) SIS(0): DRAM bus width: 64 bit
(--) SIS(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC0000000
(--) SIS(0): MMIO registers at 0xD4000000 (size 64K)
(--) SIS(0): VideoRAM: 262144 KB
(II) SIS(0): Using 20480K of framebuffer memory at offset 0K
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(--) SIS(0): Detected SiS307LV video bridge (Charter/UMC-1, ID 7; Rev 0xe1)
(--) SIS(0): No CRT1/VGA detected
(--) SIS(0): Detected LCD/plasma panel (1280x800, 11, non-exp., RGB24 [ec2205])
(==) SIS(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) SIS(0): CRT1 gamma correction is enabled
(II) SIS(0): Separate Xv gamma correction for CRT1 is disabled
(II) SIS(0): CRT2 gamma correction is enabled
(--) SIS(0): Memory bandwidth at 32 bpp is 1193.16 MHz
(--) SIS(0): Detected LCD PanelDelayCompensation 0x00 (for LCD=CRT2)
(--) SIS(0): Detected LCD PanelDelayCompensation 0x00 (for LCD=CRT1)
(--) SIS(0): 302LV/302ELV: Using EMI 0x6a0d7038 (LCD)
(--) SIS(0): CRT2 DDC probing failed
(==) SIS(0): Min pixel clock is 10 MHz
(--) SIS(0): Max pixel clock is 340 MHz
(II) SIS(0): Replaced entire mode list with built-in modes
(II) SIS(0): Correcting missing CRT2 monitor HSync range
(II) SIS(0): Correcting missing CRT2 monitor VRefresh range
(II) SIS(0): "Unknown reason" in the following list means that the mode
(II) SIS(0): is not supported on the chipset/bridge/current output device.
(II) SIS(0): Configured Monitor: Using hsync range of 30.00-80.00 kHz
(II) SIS(0): Configured Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 59.00-61.00 Hz
(II) SIS(0): Configured Monitor: Using vrefresh value of 71.00 Hz
(WW) SIS(0): Unable to estimate virtual size
(II) SIS(0): Clock range: 10.00 to 340.00 MHz
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (unknown reason)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x800" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) SIS(0): Not using default mode "1280x800" (hsync out of range)
(--) SIS(0): Virtual size is 1280x800 (pitch 1280)
(**) SIS(0): *Default mode "1280x800" (1280x800) (For CRT device: 107.9 MHz, 63.9 kHz, 59.9 Hz)
(**) SIS(0): *Default mode "1024x768" (1024x768) (For CRT device: 65.1 MHz, 48.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz)
(**) SIS(0): *Default mode "800x600" (800x600) (For CRT device: 40.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz)
(**) SIS(0): *Default mode "640x480" (640x480) (For CRT device: 25.1 MHz, 31.3 kHz, 59.7 Hz)
(==) SIS(0): DPI set to (96, 96)

Note the second line, I had to use a different directory, as described in my readme.txt

by the way, I have a Clevo M761S

[dekoderek]

I tried exactly as you wrote and didn't work for me. I tried a couple of modifications and still no luck. The driver doesn't even probe form my res (1366x768), I found other on the net which does. But still didn't find or run it.

I tried both paths (with old_sis dir and without).

Would you like to see any more logs from you (I sent some a few posts before).

Thanks!