6.3/4 XGI Volari V3XT/V5/V8 display failure

[Phil]

Details see
http://forums.partedmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1649

[Phil (phil4000n)]

Bug in Linux Mint LXDE 11 RC2

[Tony Travis (ajtravis)]

Although the XGI device is detected by xorg, no driver is loaded because the SiS driver has now replaced the XGI driver.
This can be solved by directing the "xgi" identifier to the "sis" driver in (lucid) /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/09-xgi.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "xgi"
        Driver "sis"
        Endsection

The same fix works in Maverick, but the path is: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/09-xgi.conf

Another, related, bug is that the "sis" driver does not load the "sisfb" module: This can be worked around by adding the "sisfb" module to /etc/modules

HTH,

  Tony.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tony Travis (ajtravis)]

Correction: The second path is for Oneric (11.10)

  /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/09-xgi.conf

[In Maverick it's the same as Lucid]