Driver problems

papabill · 06-12-2009, 03:38 PM

I just installed Ubuntu 8.04-1 on a machine, and the video and audio are not working properly. The video will not reach it's fullest resolution, and I cannot make the audio what it's supposed to.

I have the motherboard support CD with all the windoze drivers on it, but don't know how to use them to work in Linux.

Any advise or suggestions.

Thanks

DragonSlayer48DX · 06-12-2009, 08:26 PM

Your Windows drivers CD is pretty much useless, here.

Try this:

Reboot your PC, and when you see "Grub loading...", press ESC and select Recovery Mode.

After a few lines of text, a menu will appear. Run xfix, then Normal Boot.

If that doesn't fix the issues, come back and post a list of your PC's hardware, and the contents of your xorg.conf file.

Cheers

papabill · 06-14-2009, 09:14 AM

That did no good. Where is the xorg.conf file located.

I have tried lspci, and gotten at least an idea of what kind of hardware I have:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 03)

tredegar · 06-14-2009, 11:03 AM

Thanks for the lspci output
Check this out: http://hardware4linux.info/component/24750/
So I'd get myself a cheap NVIDIA card, use NVIDIA's proprietary drivers and disable that SiS stuff in the BIOS.

xorg.conf is at /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and
locate filename is a very useful command to know.

papabill · 06-14-2009, 03:02 PM

Well, unfortunately, getting another video card is totally out of the question. So I guess I'll either have to go back to WinDoze or get used to 960x600 (most dialog boxes don't even fit that screen).

Thanks for the locate command, I appreciate it.

Mark_ger · 06-15-2009, 06:02 PM

Have a look at http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/

You may find some SiS driveres for Ubuntu there.

Note: Mandriva 2009.0 works out of the box with the SiS Chipsets (unfortunately the newer 2009.1 does NOT yet)