Need Video driver for SIS VGA card

[mattfurlani]

I supposedly have a Silicon Integrated Systems video card. Another forum member claims their are no proprietary drivers for said card. if someone can prove him wrong I would be very happy and if you could help me get my video card running I also would be very happy. If you need some more information on the specifics of my video card here they are

matt@matt-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 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
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

[C.S.Cameron]

Wish I could find a simple method myself.
Found some really complex looking methods searching D201GLY2.
But I got scared off.
Good luck, please let us know if you find something (simple).
There are linux sis drivers on the intel site:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filt...ting%20Systems
But I can't get them to work either

[willca]

I feel for you man. Hard to find a proprietary linux driver for that card.

Worst case if you cant get an X up with any driver you get from the vendor (if you get any I mean). I would just use vga or vesa in my xorg.conf.

[kansasnoob]

That card does not even seem to be supported by Medibuntu but you could try:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Remember the GPG key!

Then try:

sudo apt-get install alsa-firmware

I'd also personally install:

sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

It'll then show up in Sound & Video!

Lots of toggles:

Screenshot-GNOME ALSA Mixer.png

Screenshot-GNOME ALSA Mixer-1.png

Too many for one screenshot!

[anewguy]

I thought those were covered by the xserver-xorg-video-sis package in Synaptics??

Did you try to configure xserver selecting sis as the video chipset?

Dave

[anewguy]

Using ndiswrapper, don't the drivers from SiS, found at the following link, work?

http://www.helpdrivers.com/ingles/li...S&perif=video2

Dave

[mattfurlani]

Using ndiswrapper, don't the drivers from SiS, found at the following link, work?

http://www.helpdrivers.com/ingles/li...S&perif=video2

Dave

Which one would i use? i don't really understand what all this means. I'm about linux savy as as a 12 year old understands calculus. So if you could 'stupify' some of this i think it could help me better. I'm kinda treating linux as moving to another country without speaking the local language. So i'm learning as i'm going. I just got this running like a week ago so, bare with my ignorance. i've been without the time and money to buy a dummies user guide.


Another note. What is Xnvidia? i was looking around on my compy and people keep talking about xconfig and xnvidia.

Is that something i need to configure? or is that not compatable with my video card. I don't know how to work anything in the terminal.

[anewguy]

XnVidia is referring to having an nVidia video card - you have SIS.



Forget what I said about using ndiswrapper and the Windows driver from that page - ndiswrapper is for network cards and I guess I forgot what we were talking about for a moment there!

What I would do is the following:

open a terminal window:

Applications/Accesories/Terminal

Then:

(1) cd /etc/X11 <enter> This will change what is called your working directory (by default it puts you in your "home" folder) to /etc/X11

(2) sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf_good <enter> This will make a copy of your existing xorg.conf file so we can experiment without losing a known working copy. It will ask for a password and this is just your normal log on password.

(3) sudo gedit xorg.conf <enter> This will open the file xorg.conf in a graphical editor so we can make changes.

(4) Click on the "Find" button, enter VESA in the search string and click "Find". Hopefully it will highlight a line that will look something like the following:

Driver "vesa"

(5) Change VESA (whatever it's case) to sis (the quotes must remain)

(6) Click "Save"

(7) Close the editor window

(8) hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard and press the Back Space key, then let go of all keys. This will restart your X session with the changed xorg.conf file and you will need to log on again. See if things are any better.

If you can't find "VESA" in the editor, click "Edit" then "Select All", then click "Copy" and post a message back here and paste in the contents you just copied.

Sorry about the previous mix-up - I've been trying to answer some questions people had on wireless and I just got my "wires" crossed!

The SIS driver is included in Ubuntu, so it's just a matter of telling the X server to use it. I'm a little surprised Ubuntu didn't detect that when you installed (maybe it did - if you can't find VESA we'll see).

Dave

[mattfurlani]

matt@matt-laptop:~$ cd/etc/x11
bash: cd/etc/x11: No such file or directory
matt@matt-laptop:~$ cd /etc/x11
bash: cd: /etc/x11: No such file or directory
matt@matt-laptop:~$


I kinda hit a wall at step one. Help!

[Locke_99GS]

matt@matt-laptop:~$ cd/etc/x11
bash: cd/etc/x11: No such file or directory
matt@matt-laptop:~$ cd /etc/x11
bash: cd: /etc/x11: No such file or directory
matt@matt-laptop:~$


I kinda hit a wall at step one. Help!

Linux is case sensitive. The "X" in the path must be capital.

cd /etc/X11