Slackware & SiS 771/671 drivers SlackBuild

BrianW · 07-16-2014, 11:56 PM

Not sure if anyone will find this relevant but what the heck. As I ended up with a Optiplex 160 sporting fancy onboard SiS 671 graphics, I found out that the xf86-video-sis-imedia driver works for this card. Using the patches and source tarball from the Arch repository (these seem to be the most up-to-date,) this can be built and ran on Slackware. I've found this to work with Slackware64-14.1 (xorg-server-1.14.3) and Slackware64-current (xorg-server-1.15.2). One caveat, as I didn't want the package to overwrite the native xf86-video-sis package driver, the driver is renamed to sisimedia breaking the automated xorgsetup file creation (sorry!)

Slackbuild: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_ca...Ew0YWlCc1h1NW8
Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/xf86-v...091203.tar.bz2

Demo xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      340   270     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "SAM"
        ModelName    "SyncMaster"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"   
        Driver      "sisimedia"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0" 
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24  
                Modes "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

kingbeowulf · 07-17-2014, 12:20 AM

Nice work. Brings back memories of wrestling with SIS budget chipsets what back.

fsalk · 07-18-2014, 07:27 AM

hello, i have SiS graphic card, and with my xorg.conf i have resolutin 1280x768.

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "X.org Configured"
   Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
   ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
   FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load  "extmod"
#   Load  "dri2"
   Load  "dbe"
#   Load  "glx"
   Load  "record"
#   Load  "dri"
   Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
   ModelName    "Monitor Model"
   HorizSync    30-107
   VertRefresh  50-185
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        Option     "ShadowFB" "false"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"    # [<bool>]
   Identifier  "Card0"
   Driver      "vesa"
   VendorName  "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]"
   BoardName   "771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Card0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth 24
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth      24
      Modes     "1280x800"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     16
      Modes	"1024x768"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
      Modes	"1024x768"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

There's little hack how to acquire 1280x800_60 using xrandr and I'll put it here when i find it