On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > There are (experimental and unofficial) Debian packages available for > the SiS X driver and sisctrl, the SiS Display Control Panel. > > Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: > > For stable: > deb http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/stable ./ > > For unstable: > deb http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/unstable ./ > > For apt-src usage: > > stable: deb-src http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/stable ./ > unstable: deb-src http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/debian/unstable ./ > > Testing should work with the unstable versions. > > Basically, there are two packages provided: > > -) sisxdriver works similar to msttcorefonts: It downloads and installs > the (then current) X driver from my website. The package does not > contain the driver itself. > > -) sisctrl contains the sisctrl utility. > > As for the source, you may want to use apt-src; two packages are > provided, sisxdriver and sisctrl. sisxdriver does not contain the X > driver source, but the source of the installation package. sisctrl > contains the complete source for sisctrl and can be built by > debian/rules binary. > > For stable, there is only one "binary" package available: sisxdriver. > Since I don't have a system running stable, I cannot provide binary > packages for stable otherwise. sisctrl must hence be built from source > (or you can try the version for unstable, perhaps it works). > > For unstable, sisxdriver and sisctrl are both available as binary and as > source packages. > > The XFree86 SiS driver binary is originally contained in the > xserver-xfree86 package. Installing the sisxdriver package will at the > same time install a "diversion" of the original SiS XFree86 driver, > meaning that an eventual update of xserver-xfree86 will not overwrite > the driver installed by sisxdriver. > > These packages are relatively new and I'd welcome testing results (per > private mail)
I'm going to install debian on someone's laptop next week or so. It has a SiS card. Why should I use your drivers instead of the XFree86 ones? What is the origin of your drivers? TIA, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
