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Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by jerryferry123 » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:24 am

I’ trying to get some use out of an Advent 5421 with sis 771/671 onboard video. Fullscreen 1289*768 is possible as puppy linux runs well in this mode and Mint 71.3 xfce and 17.3 mate both seem to run in high resolution with the live cd. After installation, 640*480 seems to be the default and maximum resolution.

Internet searching returns lots of complaints about sis video cards, references to old drivers for earlier versions of mint and plenty of suggestions about changes to make to /etc/x11/xorg.conf. I’ve tried substituting the xorg.conf from the live session and used sections from puppys xorg.conf but still no success.

Any help in which direction to go would be appreciated.

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Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by Mute Ant » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:38 am

. to enable them. They may not work of course, or they may be inappropriate for your chips, but it won’t hurt to try. Log out to the mdm greeter screen to give Xorg another go with them loaded.

Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by jerryferry123 » Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:35 pm

sis 16384 0 sisfb 241664 1 sis drm 286720 2 sis sata_sis 16384 3 sis190 24576 0 mii 16384 1 sis190 sis_agp 16384 1 

Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by Mute Ant » Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:32 pm

Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by baldrick.777 » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:33 pm

Yup, forget LM17. You’ll need to go with LM13 instead. It seems LM17 doesn’t support this rather old driver. LM13 is an LTS and has roughly 2years of support left.

It’s for Ubuntu 12.04, which is what LM13 is based on. The best you’ll get is 1366×768 resolution.

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Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by kukamuumuka » Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:56 am

baldrick.777 wrote: Yup, forget LM17. You’ll need to go with LM13 instead. It seems LM17 doesn’t support this rather old driver. LM13 is an LTS and has roughly 2years of support left.

Modeline ”1289x768_60.00” . -hsync +vsync

xrandr –newmode ”1289x768_60.00” . hsync +vsync 

xrandr –addmode VGA1 1289x768_60.00

If you get the black screen, press Ctrl F2 and Ctrl Alt Del for rebooting the computer.
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Re: Trying to get >640*480 notebook with sis 771/671

Post by capivara » Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:57 am

With Peppermint 6 (same 14.04 base) I had some luck by making my own xorg.conf. The computer was from a friend of mine, an Asus 1201K.

Copy the code below into your editor and save it as xorg.conf. Copy the file to /etc/X11 and reboot the system. If memory serves me well you have to open /etc/X11 as root/administrator.

Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" VendorName "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]" BoardName "771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter" Busid "PCI:1:0:0" Driver "vesa" Screen 0 Option "UseFBDev" "true" Option "DPMS" Option "ShadowFB" Option "MaxXFBMem" VideoRam 262016 Option "RenderAccel" "true"Also SiS. Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Option "backingstore" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" Vendorname "Generic LCD Display" Modelname "LCD Panel 1280x768" HorizSync 20-107 VertRefresh 50-185 modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync modeline "1280x768@60" 80.14 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 -hsync +vsync Gamma 1.0 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 768 Modes "1280x768@60" "1280x720@60" "800x600@60" "1280x800@60" "800x600@56" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "GLcore" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "int10" Load "vbe" Load "speedo" Load "record" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection

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Easy tips for Linux Mint and Ubuntu, both for beginners and for advanced users.

SiS 671 or 771 video card in Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce

The infamous SiS graphics cards are difficult to tame in Linux, unfortunately. Luckily there’s an acceptable solution now for the SiS 771/671 video card, although it does require a little manual work.

The most common problem with this card is, that the screen resolution is incorrect. Usually far too low. With this how-to you should be able to achieve a resolution of 1280×800. You can expect only minimal performance, though: playing video’s won’t go smoothly. Even 480p video playback will probably be bad.

Do you have no graphical desktop at all? Then do this first.

Only for Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce

This how-to will only work in Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce (or Xubuntu 18.04.1), because only its kernel and X.org are fit for this particular solution and only its desktop environment is lightweight enough. It probably won’t work in newer versions and badly in other desktop environments.

You can get 32-bit Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce here.

You can get 64-bit Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce here.

1. This how-to differs for 32-bit and 64-bit. So first determine the architecture of your system, in order to find out whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit:

Launch a terminal window.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)

If the output is i686 , your system is 32-bit.

If the output is x86_64 , your system is 64-bit.

For a 32-bit operating system, get this compressed file.

For a 64-bit operating system, get this compressed file.

The compressed file contains the files sisimedia_drv.la and sisimedia_drv.so and a modified xorg.conf , in a compressed state.

The first two files are the actual driver, and the last file contains modified settings which force your system to use the new driver.

Note: I provide these files «as is». I downloaded them from a non-official source, namely a mirror server of Mageia Linux. I did not test them myself. The only check I performed on them, was that I had them analyzed by VirusTotal.com (which reported them as clean).

3. Compressed files aren’t useful. So unpack the three files in the folder Downloads, like this:

Launch a terminal window.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)

Use copy/paste to transfer the following command line to the terminal (it’s one line):

cd Downloads && tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/sis.tar.gz

4. Now you’re going to move the two unpacked files of the actual driver, into a system folder:

Launch a terminal window.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)

Use copy/paste to transfer the following command line to the terminal (it’s one line):

sudo mv -v ~/Downloads/sisimedia_drv.* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers

Press Enter. Your password will remain entirely invisible, not even dots will show, this is normal.

5. a. It’s not present by default, but yet you might already have a xorg.conf in place. Make sure it’s gone by means of this command:

b. Also make sure there’s no file called monitors.xml in your personal folder, with this command:

6. Now you’re going to move the modified settings file xorg.conf into another system folder, which forces the system to use the new driver. Proceed as follows.

Use copy/paste to transfer the following command line to the terminal (it’s one line):

sudo mv -v ~/Downloads/xorg.conf /etc/X11

7. Reboot your computer. A screen resolution of 1280×800 should be possible now.

8. Visual effects are too much for this driver. So in Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce, disable all visual effects like this:
Menu button — Settings — Desktop Settings
Window Manager: set it to plain Xfwm4 (instead of Xfwm4 + Compositing )

9. Extend the security updates support for the Ubuntu 18.04 code base of your Linux Mint 19.2, until 2028.

Alternative method with more options
You can find an alternative method with more options on axebase.net.

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I’m coming to Mint 12 from Ubuntu 11.10, just to give it a try, and see that some fellows are having issues with these hideous SiS 671/771 onboard video chips (some tend to add the name Mirage, but I’m not that sure they’re all the same).
Anyway the thing is that there’s one, let’s call it, «solution» which is VERY easy to use when you’re a noob.
This solution goes like this:

Just add his PPA and install this driver, reboot, and you’re done.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:acasagrande/xf86-video-sismedia
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-sismedia

How cool is that?

I’ve done it and it just works (at least on Linux Mint 12), no need to sudo-edit anything. Oh please, stop asking for 3D support. there’s not such a thing for SiS 671 / 771 in the Linux cosmos.

You should keep in touch with that thread, my suggestion.

Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by mank_in » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:23 pm

Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by Elzigzag » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:10 pm

mank_in wrote: I am not using SiS, just curious . Is Cinnamon or MGSE works How about Flash site like youtube

So. you’re not using SiS, lucky you!
Youtube works great. MGSE just works, with some minor details that somehow seem to be different in each occasion.
I’ll keep on testing.

Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by Mafanca » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:54 pm

Hi. First of all, thanks, but. I did that and when rebooted, everything went black. And it’s not that I’m not able to see what’s going on, but nothing’s going on, the system doesn’t even load up. I tried like 4 more times and googled a little, but I guess I’ll have to reinstall or forget about the thing. Any ideas though?

Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by mank_in » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:31 am

Try add «nomodeset» in boot option

Hold Shift after boot, press «e» to edit boot option , add line :
nomodeset
before line «quite splash»

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Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by AlbertP » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:29 pm

There is no kernel mode-setting driver for Sis hardware. nomodeset does not make sense here.

A driver should also be present by default, you can use this in your xorg.conf to use it:

Section "Device" Driver "sis" EndSection

However this does not support the latest chips, often leaves you with a black screen and only some old chips have limited 3d (but that’s removed in mesa 8 / mint 13).
For 671/771 you could install a driver on Mint 9 (some how-to’s are on the forum) but not on later versions. That driver was actually working very well.

Usually sis on linux is just crap.

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Re: SiS 671/771 Video — Solution

Post by ianfm » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:05 am

Elzigzag wrote: I’m coming to Mint 12 from Ubuntu 11.10, just to give it a try, and see that some fellows are having issues with these hideous SiS 671/771 onboard video chips (some tend to add the name Mirage, but I’m not that sure they’re all the same).
Anyway the thing is that there’s one, let’s call it, «solution» which is VERY easy to use when you’re a noob.
This solution goes like this:

Just add his PPA and install this driver, reboot, and you’re done.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:acasagrande/xf86-video-sismedia
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-sismedia

How cool is that?

I’ve done it and it just works (at least on Linux Mint 12), no need to sudo-edit anything. Oh please, stop asking for 3D support. there’s not such a thing for SiS 671 / 771 in the Linux cosmos.

You should keep in touch with that thread, my suggestion.

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