[Bug 1066464] Re: Please remove xserver-xorg-video-sis from saucy (was: SiS driver crashes Xserver with EXA acceleration)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Patched SiS video driver (from ppa:dtl131/mediahacks , package xserver-
xorg-video-sis version 0.10.7-0ubuntu5~raring1) works fine with SIS Real
256E Graphics (Asus P5S800-VM mainboard with SiS 671FX chipset)
hardware.

I'm attaching Xorg.0.log from Ubuntu 13.04 system with SIS Real 256E
Graphics (Asus P5S800-VM mainboard with SiS 671FX chipset) hardware -
Xorg works fine with patched SiS video driver from ppa:dtl131/mediahacks
, but doesn't start at all with default xserver-xorg-video-sis package
from Ubuntu.

Please don't remove xserver-xorg-video-sis package from Ubuntu Saucy,
but use EXA patch https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/mediahacks/ ,
because patched SiS driver works fine on new Xserver with EXA
acceleration.

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] LPC Controller (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote on 2013-09-26:
> Timo, is it the best solution to just remove the package? It definitely should not be installed by default unless accel is disabled, but it does allow resolutions that VESA doesn't, like 1280x800.
> For anyone interested, I applied the EXA patch and uploaded the sis driver to my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/mediahacks/+packages


** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log from Ubuntu 13.04 with patched sis driver (from ppa:dtl131/mediahacks) on SIS Real 256E Graphics (mainboard with SiS 671FX chipset)"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/1066464/+attachment/3855191/+files/Xorg.0.log

** Summary changed:

- Please remove xserver-xorg-video-sis from saucy (was: SiS driver crashes Xserver with EXA acceleration)
+ Please patch xserver-xorg-video-sis for Saucy and Raring (was: SiS driver crashes Xserver with EXA acceleration)

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  Please patch xserver-xorg-video-sis for Saucy and Raring (was: SiS
  driver crashes Xserver with EXA acceleration)

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