Yet again I am having a problem with this diabolical piece of kit on a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04. It never did work very well (max 800x600) was as good as it got. It is now not working at all except in safe mode.
jana@jana-laptop:~$ lspci |grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log says:
(II) LoadModule: "sisimedia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.so: undefined
symbol: resVgaIoShared
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "sisimedia"
(EE) Failed to load module "sisimedia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Th drivers appear to be there but not loaded.
jana@jana-laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 573036 2010-03-26 03:54
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 952 2009-07-11 17:27
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 657492 2009-07-11 17:27
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71952 2009-12-07 22:01
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisusb_drv.so
So I downloaded a driver and tried to install it (sorry about the Portuguese but it is fairly easy to work out that it is a conflict with xserver-xorg-video-5):
jana@jana-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-sis671_0.9_i386.deb
dpkg: sobre xorg-driver-sis671_0.9_i386.deb contendo xorg-driver-sis671:
xserver-xorg-core conflita com xserver-xorg-video-5
xorg-driver-sis671 fornece xserver-xorg-video-5 e está para ser instalado.
dpkg: erro processando xorg-driver-sis671_0.9_i386.deb (--install):
pacotes conflitantes - não instalando xorg-driver-sis671
Erros foram encontrados durante o processamento de:
xorg-driver-sis671_0.9_i386.deb
There appear to be proprietary drivers written by a SiS employee but they are not distributed except to manufacturers
http://barroslee.blogspot.com/search/label/sis671
Where do I go from here? I really would like better than 800X600, 3D would be a very nice bonus.
ZB
