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xserver-xorg-video-sis package

  1. Bug #119811
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 119811

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Sergey Kiselev (skiselev) wrote :

Could it be that you have a motherboard based on SiS662 chipset? (Like D201GLY)

Xorg driver has a known problem with this chipset. It will show noise (vertical lines, snow, etc.) then working in high resolution modes (like 1024x768 and 1280x1024). See this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=463077

Workarounds / resolutions:
- Compile 'premium' sis driver from here: http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart4.shtml . Driver won't compile cleanly on Xorg 1.3.0, some modifications are required (use of XORG_VERSION_CURRENT >= XORG_VERSION_NUMERIC macros)
- Use binary driver, that was distributed by Intel (it was removed from their site, use Google's cache...)
- Use 'vesa' driver. It won't support XV or DRI, it's slower, but it works.