can't get xgi/sis graphics card working!!!!

Hi there. I originally posted this question up before on the 25th March 2010 but nobody has replied to it. Surely there must be an answer :(. I have a z9 volari Graphics card that opensuse 1.2 is recognising but the xgi driver is not present. I get the following when I startx:

auth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4650

X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux linux-tj57 2.6.31.12-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 i586
Build Date: 02 November 2009 12:05:39PM

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Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Fri Mar 19 15:10:06 2010
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module “xgi” (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) VESA(1): Driver can’t support depth 24
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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Please also check the log file at “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” for additional information.

giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

Perhaps my last post about this was too long and hence why nobody responded. So i will try and keep it simple and let the experts advise me.

I have tried installing an rpm that I got from rpm search. Namely xorg-x11-driver-video-xgi-1.5.0-6.1.i586 which seemed to install but when I did a query it said it was not installed, but when I tried to do an install again it said it was already installed ???

There is also a file called xserver-xorg-video-sis_0.9.3.orig.tar.gz which i got from this site. I have not managed to extract it properly yet but will look into that myself. It appears to have in it a makefile, so I presume it is source files and I could really do with some help in that.

Any help very much appreciated… Sev

Hi,

I’m in no way use to doing anything like this, but since you haven’t gotten any replies, I thought I’d take a crack at it. The source code for the driver can be found here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5971

This was linked to from their main page at: :: Welcome to XGI ::](http://www.xgitech.com/sd/sd_opensource.asp)

But they also had a download link here: :: Welcome to XGI ::](http://www.xgitech.com/sd/sd_download2.asp)
which looks more like what you found.

It mentions that the driver is only 2D and is used for server and embeded applications.

You can try to compile it yourself and that’s about all the help I can give you.

Take Care,

Ian

Hi there. I have tried compiling it with the ./mkdrv command but after initial conversion of all the files from dos to unix format, I get the following messages:

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: …/…/…/…/…/…/config/imake: No such file or directory
okay, continuing in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/xgi

  • rm -f Makefile.bak
  • mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
    …/…/…/…/…/…/config/imake/imake -I…/…/…/…/…/…/config/cf -Wundef -DTOPDIR=…/…/…/…/…/… -DCURDIR=programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/xgi
    /bin/sh: …/…/…/…/…/…/config/imake/imake: No such file or directory
    make: *** [Makefile] Error 1
    make: *** No rule to make target `clean’. Stop.
    make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Am I being stupid? Is there some installation instructions for it? Any help much appreciated…