Hello, 'sis' driver included in X.org 7.4 (which is particularly used by Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) does not work with a lot of SiS graphic cards, including my SiS M760. Generated screen is 'fuzzy', one can see weird colors, flashy screen etc., making it hard to eyes.
This makes this driver unusable and forces users to switch to 'vesa', which is slower and, at least in Intrepid, causes computer to stutter during playing some videos (not HD ones, so my computer should handle them without any problem...). Here is a bug report in bugs.freedesktop.org: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19104 and the one reported in launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/264769 It seems that Thomas Winischhofer, assigned to this part of X.org project, is unreachable now (nobody has responded to my report at bugs.freedesktop.org yet). As quite a lot of people use SiS cards, this is a serious problem. As for now, we can only use some older Linux distributions, as Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Long Term Support edition, supported till 2011). If it were not repaired until 2011, it would leave SiS users unsupported. I know that SiS company ignores Linux community and there will always be problems with their graphic cards, but just a few years ago most not-so-expensive notebooks used their products, so we had no choice as a result of lack of money. Thanks for Your time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, Michał Gołębiowski _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
