I have a laptop with a sis 650 video card. It works just fine except in video games like assault cube where it runs really slow. Now that could be because I have less than a gig of memory, but more likely it seems lack of 3D support. I found the sis_drv.o-402 file on the sis site, which seems to be a kernel module. This info came from an article that is a couple of years old. It, and other references speak of using “insmod sis_drv.o-402”.
I can not find such a command, nor can I find reference to it in the opensuse site.
I also can not seem to find which driver I am currently using, and if it has 3D support. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Well, perhaps I have cracked it. I found a thread in the forums from some time back that said due to some way in which the kernel is compiled, insmod has not worked since version 9, so if you want to install a kernel mod, you have to compile the kernel; not something I am ready to try. Then I ran across a bit on the SIS website (Support > FAQs > Linux FAQ) that suggested renaming the sis_drv.o-402 as /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o under redhat. I did not have that directory, but I did find a file:///usr/lib/dri/sis_dri.so .
So, after making sure I had backed things up I renamed my
drv.o-402 driver as file:///usr/lib/dri/sis_dri.so
Nothing bad happened and my video (which I had inadvertently set to a lower resolution) immediately got better. The games still run too slowly to be of use, but they are some faster and the graphics are better in them (even better than before I had messed with the resolution).
I plan to try more memory to see if that will help, I still am not sure if I have accelerated 3d, or even how to tell. But my video is better and nothing broke. I’ll call that a good thing for now.