Old Acer laptop with SiS chipset

business_kid · 05-30-2021, 05:08 AM

I think I had 800×600 going on mine. But there was more there. Mine was a video memory issue.

rokytnji · 05-30-2021, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by business_kid

There was a driver for the SiS video, and you have to go far enough back in time with your OS to find it. I don't think vesa is much use. Vesa used Vesa Local Bus, SiS used pci. Sure, vesa works on pci & pcie buses, but SiS is a disaster area.

Older sis drivers don't work with newer version of xorg shipped with all modern distros. You need the same xorg version from where ever you get that Sis driver from.
Then pin everything so it don't update.

business_kid · 05-30-2021, 11:47 AM

Yeah, he's no choice. He has to live in a time warp. I told him that in post #10, recommended Slackware 10-12 and using the latest with an SiS driver. the SiS dweebs closed in 2007. But you can only try with some folks. I gather I was shouted down.

rokytnji · 05-30-2021, 01:35 PM

Yeah, I only paid attention because I spent weeks sussing this problem out on alpha test release isos.

But I got it eventually.

https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive...-15-t5570.html

business_kid · 06-06-2021, 07:28 AM

I got 2 pcs around 2000 to get the kids to keep their grubby hands off mine. I bought first, asked questions afterward.

One had the SiS chipset (5513/6326), and one had a Via chipset with the famous Via MPV3 hardware fault. They had actually tweaked the bios to work with Creative Soundblasters and wrecked it. Via put out a utility and instructions to fix it and all was well. But the same chipset had a crazy usb issue that I sunk time into.