sis dri DDX interface outdated

[joe]

The SiS driver currently included in Gutsy is the newest official version, however the DDX interface is incompatible with Xorg, so it complains when running glxinfo:

SiS DRI driver expected DDX version 0-0.8.x but got version 0.7.1

This disables DRI.

Solution: Current GIT version (19th September 07) of xserver-xorg-video-sis solves the issue completely.

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

This is true. I'm running a SiS630 laptop. Attached glxinfo.

The driver is outdated.

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

To be clear, this is Ubuntu Gutsy uptodate as of 18th September 2007.

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

The version of the SiS driver is 1:0.9.3-2 .

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

After compiling today's GIT version of the SiS driver, I have working DRI in Gutsy current.

So the issue lies in the driver. It needs an update, despite the fact that there was no new official release beyond what's already in Gutsy. The GIT version works fine.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Steps to patch and rebuild:

Download the patch as plain text from http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=391dad44fa305be4cded31cf2f9a4fba7420af99;hp=89d2f2118a2409d1bf0239448a4e3d2f6e7a1919

sudo apt-get install devscripts
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-sis
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-sis
cd xserver-xorg-video-sis-0.9.3
patch -p1 < the_patch_that_you_downloaded
debuild -b -us -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-sis*.deb

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

  * commit 391dad44fa305be4cded31cf2f9a4fba7420af99 from upstream
    Fix xserver version detection. (LP: #118325)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This looks quite proper. It simply updates the -sis driver to accept the new xserver numbering scheme (i.e. 1.3.x versus the old 7.2.x based on xorg version numbers). +1 for uploading it.

Pretty much all the other drivers needed a change like this; presumably this one was missed just because it is not often updated.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

xserver-xorg-video-sis (1:0.9.3-2ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * commit 391dad44fa305be4cded31cf2f9a4fba7420af99 from upstream
    Fix xserver version detection. (LP: #118325)

 -- Tormod Volden <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:14 +0200

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

The problem was with the sis x.org driver which failed to detect the X version, The issue is fixed. This wasn't a mesa problem, Setting as invalid.