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Maybe I missed a message somewhere (that forum search didn't find either), in which case sorry and all that.
I am, since today, getting
$ pacman -S xf86-video-sis
error: target not found: xf86-video-sis
$ pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-sis-0.10.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: xf86-video-sis and xorg-server are in conflict (X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION). Remove xorg-server? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
Downgrade of xorg-server, accompanied by a "xorg-input-driver" (xorg-input-evdev works), resolves the immediate issue, together with install of xf86-video-sis from cache.
$ pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.18.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
What the f yo, xf86-video-sis booted from the repos without notice? Google search still shows it on the Arch site but https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … video-sis/ says
xf86-video-sis 0.10.8-2 has been removed from the [extra] repository.
Unfortunately, this package cannot be found in any other repositories.
Hmmmmm. I really don't like this SiS card either but to yank the driver is a bit harsh, is it not?
Last edited by davidsmit (2017-01-13 06:55:40)
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Is your SiS card working with xf86-video-vesa driver ?
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Well, the current xf86-video-sis release doesn't work with xorg-server-1.19, maybe that's why it was yanked. However this can be solved by packaging the latest git snapshot (in theory, I haven't tried in practice yet, my old laptop with sis graphics is so unstable I don't use it anymore).
Edit: @slithery: Umm, I don't get it, the server and drivers are not a unified package. And if you look at the xf86-video-sis git repository, you can see the driver has been updated for ABI 23 (the ABI of server 1.19): https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/drive … video-sis/
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Well, the current xf86-video-sis release doesn't work with xorg-server-1.19, maybe that's why it was yanked. However this can be solved by packaging the latest git snapshot (in theory, I haven't tried in practice yet, my old laptop with sis graphics is so unstable I don't use it anymore).
Edit: @slithery: Umm, I don't get it, the server and drivers are not a unified package. And if you look at the xf86-video-sis git repository, you can see the driver has been updated for ABI 23 (the ABI of server 1.19): https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/drive … video-sis/
Ah, so I had been sleeping. Thanks!
@fredbezies: no, it does not work with vesa, unfortunately. I will have to try building it (or just staying on xorg-server 1.18 forever, of course ).
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Okay, I updated again (-Syu), without holding any packages back, and built the sis_drv.so from the git.
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis
cd xf86-video-sis/
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so
reboot
Now it works, so the removal from repos seems a bit of a mystery to me. And I think there must be a more elegant way of including that directory, instead of symlinking the driver. But I will find it later. Hauptsache it works and I can "go back to trolling /h/".
Last edited by davidsmit (2017-01-13 06:04:22)
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