Xorg-server 1.12.0-1 crashes my sis671 driver.

Uchiha · 2012-03-14 02:19:55

Hi!

I was using this driver to fix the resolution of my notebook: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47620
So, yesterday, the xorg-server had been updated, what made the driver crashes.
Now, I'm using vesa, with resolution 1024x768, looks poor. How can I fix the driver or downgrade the xorg-server (I think there's too many packages involved)?

Thanks!

hadrons123 · 2012-03-14 03:14:18

uninstall your AUR package.try

pacman -S xf86-video-sisimedia

Uchiha · 2012-03-14 20:26:11

hadrons123 wrote:

uninstall your AUR package.try
pacman -S xf86-video-sisimedia

Thanks, but there's a problem when I tried to install. The pacman can not solve the dependence sis-dri. I saw that the package don't exists anymore.

[keoma@bacon ~]$ sudo pacman -S xf86-video-sisimedia
Resolving dependencies ...
warning: Can not resolve "sis-dri", a dependency of "xf86-video-sisimedia"
:: The following packages can not be updated due to unresolved dependencies:
       xf86-video-sisimedia

To ignore the above package for this update? [y / N] y
looking for inter-related conflicts ...
  there is nothing to do

Gusar · 2012-03-14 20:33:10

You'll have to downgrade X, there's no other way. It's not many packages you need to downgrade: xorg-server, xf86-input-evdev and, if you use it, xf86-input-synaptics. Then you can install xf86-video-sisimedia by telling pacman to ignore dependencies (the -dd option).

Edit: I got the thing to compile with xorg-server-1.12, but as I don't have the hardware, I have no idea if the resulting driver actually works, probably not. I can provide the patch if you're willing to play around.

Edit2: I have a better patch, based on this. This one I believe will actually work. Here it is: http://pastebin.com/wj9gYMek

Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-14 22:21:55)

Uchiha · 2012-03-14 23:45:05

Thanks a lot! I'll try the patch, and post the result here.
But how to apply this patch? Do I have to use patch -p1 < /path/to/file?
The current version of xf86-video-sis is 0.10.3-7, and the patch uses the 0.9.1 version. Do I have to get the old xf86-video-sis?

Last edited by Uchiha (2012-03-15 21:04:06)

Gusar · 2012-03-16 09:26:42

The patch is for sisimedia, not for sis. You have to get xf86-video-sisimedia with abs and modify the PKGBUILD to apply this patch in addition to the gazillion patches that are already applied.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-16 09:28:22)

Uchiha · 2012-03-16 19:48:09

How to? If I put the patch in the folder, and add patch -p1 < p.patch to PKGINFO and build it with abs, will it work?

Gusar · 2012-03-16 20:41:13

On the one hand, I'd prefer if you learn to do it yourself. But on the other, I'm really, really curious if the patch works . So...

Save the patch as xserver112.patch and put it in the folder with the other stuff. Then replace the PKGBUILD with this one: http://pastebin.com/jAQhid7u. You can compare the original PKGBUILD with this one to see what I've changed.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-16 20:43:53)

ConnorBehan · 2012-03-17 08:30:17

If I may make a shameless plug, you can try requesting that sis-dri be put back in extra: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28938. I'm not sure if AndyRTR realizes this yet but there is no danger in having Archlinux ship the old DRI1 drivers that have been dropped from mesa.

AndyRTR · 2012-03-17 09:30:45

We won't ship any Mesa 7.xx stuff in our official repos

Uchiha · 2012-03-17 16:52:26

I managed to downgrade the xorg-server and xf86-inputs, and reinstalled the xf86-sis-m671 driver from AUR.
It's OK now, but I can't upgrade the xorg anymore (and I don't want to).

Gusar wrote:

On the one hand, I'd prefer if you learn to do it yourself. But on the other, I'm really, really curious if the patch works . So...
Save the patch as xserver112.patch and put it in the folder with the other stuff. Then replace the PKGBUILD with this one: http://pastebin.com/jAQhid7u. You can compare the original PKGBUILD with this one to see what I've changed.

I won't try it for now. I have too many work to do here, and I can't at risk. So I have free time, I'd like to try this patch.

I know sis is just garbage, and Linux doesn't support this anymore. But, for a while, I don't have money to buy a better notebook. So, I (we)'ll stay suffering...

Gusar · 2012-03-17 17:22:58

You don't need to patch anything anymore, the xf86-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-3 package released today has the equivalent of my patch, plus a whole bunch of other patches too. So you can just install that, and it should work with 1.12

Oh, and I wouldn't call SiS garbage. The 2d driver was extremely good back in the day. It had mergedfb support long before xrandr-1.2 was created. Great Xv implementation too, utilizing the card's hardware overlay. I used both of these extensively back then, I had a laptop with SiS 650 graphics connected to a TV via an S-video cable, and watched tv shows and movies through that. It was quite awesome. The laptop still works, my mother is using it now.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-17 17:24:22)

Uchiha · 2012-03-23 20:51:48

Gusar wrote:

You don't need to patch anything anymore, the xf86-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-3 package released today has the equivalent of my patch, plus a whole bunch of other patches too. So you can just install that, and it should work with 1.12

Will xf86-video-sisimedia-0.9.1-3 works correctly? I'm using xf86-sis-m671 with xorg-server 1.11 for now, and it's perfect.

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Xorg-server 1.12.0-1 crashes my sis671 driver.

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