Well, I see a ,,sis_agp" module but nothing else. Apparently my video card driver in use is vesa. Does a proprietary SIS driver exist for Slitaz? I did not find such a thing.
Regards,
Michael
Well, I see a ,,sis_agp" module but nothing else. Apparently my video card driver in use is vesa. Does a proprietary SIS driver exist for Slitaz? I did not find such a thing.
Regards,
Michael
Remove xorg-xf86-video-vesa after installing xorg-xf86-video-sis, then restart the computer.
Ok, Sir,
that I will do tomorrow immediately! I do not have the machine at hand right now.
Ok, I installed xorg-xf86-video-sis - the situation remains the same, though. The second monitor is not visible with xrandr --verbose.
Not simple but my little tips
Primary problem screen on lcd turn off vert refresh is wrong try to fix change on xorg.conf the line
HorizSync 28-72
VertRefresh 43-60
default compatibility from pdf tecnical data on page 4
http://elektrotanya.com/philips_170b4_170s4_170p4.pdf/download.html
edit your xorg.conf from this guideline
http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/uk/software/xorg.php
or another tread to find sis information
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors
my excuse respects to slitaz for other forum linked, but not find any alternative.
Hi Michael,
And you removed xorg-xf86-video-vesa? And restarted the computer?
And no changes in the xrandr
output? Again maximum 1024x768
?
And see you changes in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf? Again Driver "vesa"
?
Yeah, note the bit about having to remove vesa. With my sis card xorg defaults to vesa unless it's removed. With no vesa, xorg forces itself to use the sis driver. Hence the other 2/3 of my instructions you ignored.
@Aleksej,
yes, I have removed vesa and restarted. No changes. 60-Device.conf is an empty file.
tux@slitaz:~$ lsmod | grep sis
sis_agp 2997 1
agpgart 18221 1 sis_agp
@Trixar_za
As you see vesa is out, sis is in. Situation remains the same. My Turkish friends here say that they could work with this present situation so I question whether it makes much sense to outwear you patience much longer?
It's an xorg driver not a linux module so lsmod will not list it. If there is no vesa driver, it's using the sis one. How can you tell? Try something that changes the resolution like using ZSNES or SCUMMVM. Does it now work perfectly where before it didn't work properly before? That's because it's using the sis driver.
@Trixar_za
Thanks again for the tip. It did not change anything. I give up now. This machine is in a workshop, the guys here say they can work with 1024x768 and give compliments to Slitaz for speed and clarity of instructions. Thanks to all contributors, at least the quick responses you gave were impressing the people here! ;-)
Old, partially defect hardware is old. That is all.
Hi Michael,
if you are still there - try the iso I uploaded. The xorg server used in 4.0 let me be gentle, is buggy - there was quite a lot of changes in those times in xorg. That one used now for 5.0 did big improvement.
Second do not trust tazx - check at least if mesa-dri is installed and check all the time /var/log/Xorg.0.log - nothing else tells you about the driver, the display and the error
Third - the sis driver - do not expect with "exotic" hardware, that it works like in windows. I did not check the sis driver, because I have no sis hardware, but I think it could be the same as with my trident driver from the portegee R100 - I never got my external display working with 1600 x 1200 as it works with windows only 1024X768.
the only distributions, that have proprietary support for Sis is Ubuntu and Satux (at least I know) - you may try it with these CDs and you will see what is real possible - http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Grafikkarten/SiS - compaere the XorgO.logs will help you
Thomas
I have a sis card and the driver works for it if you remove vesa...
Laptop or PC? - if laptop, does the VGA work, whith wich resolution?
PC with no AGP slot (even though it loads sis_agp O_o). It's a sis 630/730 onboard card that uses some of the RAM as VRAM. It was also used in Laptops. The pain with it is that xorg defaults to vesa even if you have the sis driver installed. The only way around this is to remove vesa which forces it to use sis instead.
The way I can tell it's using sis properly is that low resolution programs (like running ZSNES at 320x240) display properly where before it used to be misaligned and boxed on the screen (like the monitor was set badly). You also get way more options in the lxrandr program.
Funny enough, it doesn't show up ANYWHERE in Xorg's conf files though.
@kultex
What iso did you upload where? - Tomorrow is my last chance to try it. Thanks, whatever result it will give! ;-)
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