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Rickxyz

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Registered: 2018-02-05

Posts: 2

Error using SIS driver

Hi!

I'm trying to use xf86-video-sis, but I receive this error starting X:

[  3237.027] (II) LoadModule: "sis"
[  3237.027] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so
[  3237.027] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so: undefined symbol: exaDriverAlloc
[  3237.027] (II) UnloadModule: "sis"
[  3237.027] (II) Unloading sis
[  3237.027] (EE) Failed to load module "sis" (loader failed, 7)
[  3237.027] (EE) No drivers available.

I discovered that exaDriverAlloc is related to EXA acceleration for Xorg, but I can't figure ou how to load this for the driver.

Xserver works with vesa driver. But is very slow.

Thanks for the helps!

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Error using SIS driver

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54845

The default CFLAGS/LDFLAGS used by Archlinux cannot be used to build X drivers. Since the sis driver has been moved to AUR it probably didn't receive the fix for this bug. Fix for your problem in the sisusb driver (should apply to any driver):
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 83bab55b6b

Rickxyz

Member

Registered: 2018-02-05

Posts: 2

Re: Error using SIS driver

Thanks for the help!

I changed the flags, compile again and works fine.