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sis630/730 driver

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• Started 12 years ago by noxtras
• Latest reply from idihtd
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   noxtras
   

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   Hi everybody,
   I just installed slitaz and it's awesome. Everything works out of the box, except the video card driver. My card is sis630/730 (a very old laptop). I've installed the xorg-xf86-video-sis, but it doesn't seem to do much.
   I can't see the new driver in the hardware detection and drivers section.
   Any help is greatly appreciated.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Use tazx with computer connected to internet to install/configure sis driver
   At slim login type exit in username, or kill xorg with ctrl+alt+bkspc , at console login as root, password: root
   #tazx
   Choose sis from list.
   After tazx is done type reboot.
   Look here:
   #less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
   To see what's going on with xorg.
   If that doesn't work post which version of slitaz your setting up.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   I'm using onboard sis630/730 myself and here's the steps I took to use it:
   su (enter your root password)
   tazhw --detect-pci
   tazx

   With tazx I just picked sis driver under install and reconfigure xorg and it installed everything for me. Funny enough, display modes didn't work well until I did this (like ZSNES and SDL games).

   You may want to try something like lxrandr (it's avaliable in cooking or from my site @ http://www.trixarian.za.net/downloads/lxrandr.tazpkg for stable) to help you change resolutions too.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   noxtras
   

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   thank you for your quick replies. I already tried tazx. it gives some error about pci not found (my sis is AGP 4x).
   I'm using the latest slitaz 3.
   the xorg.conf file says driver "sis", but i changed that a while back from "vesa".

   I've already changed the resolution to 1024, but my problem is with mplayer. The video lags behind sound, and it worked very well and full screen on slax livecd with totem.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   noxtras
   

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   i've found the
   lspci -v
   command and it shows that i'm using agp sis 630/730 controller.
   So my video card is correctly installed?
   Then why is still mplayer slugish?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   perhaps try vlc instead of mplayer

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   Mplayer requires a few extra packages to work properly on SliTaz (mostly video mode drivers). You could try smplayer which is a front-end for mplayer, but is way easier to use and has none of the problems that you have with mplayer.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   noxtras
   

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   i've just tried smplayer. it sucks more then mplayer. as a last resort i've tried vlc (under win 7 vlc is MUCH slower then mplayer) and IT WORKS!!!!
   Kult eX:) you have a follower. Thank you a lot. I can't believe it's really working. Now only if i could play flash videos on this 733 Mhz VIA cpu:)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   tazpkg get-install flash-plugin

   Will probably only work well with Firefox (you can get my update for Firefox 4 @ my site - just click my nickname) and Opera though.

   And yeah, I personally use the base mplayer with all the right packages install - the trouble is that I can't for the life of me tell you which package to install to use the x11 mode (which is WAY faster). It's probably the fastest for wmv and mp4 files. I use VLC for everything else.

   Since you're using VLC, you might find this post interesting (and the package mojo provides). It fixes the DVD sound issue that VLC has on SliTaz.

   I think I may have given you the command wrong. It's tazhw detect-pci without the --:
   

   brenton@trixarian:~# tazhw detect-pci
   
   Detected PCI devices Kernel modules
   ================================================================================
   > Module in use:   sis_agp
   > Module in use:   snd_als4000
   ================================================================================

   It automatically installs the modules you need.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    idihtd
    

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    @Trixar_za wow i clicked on your name and installing firefox was extremely easy, do you think you could put a package for the flash plugin? That would really help me out, since other methods do not seem to work for me.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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