Running opensuse 11.0 my sis display was running. Well, during installation it selected an other model but it was running. Now during installation of 11.1 there is no graphic card support.But i like to upgrade to 11.1.
What can i do? which version of X.org or Xfree86 is in opensuse 11.1? So i can download the drivers from Thomas Winischhofer - X.org/XFree86/Linux and SiS/XGI graphics chipsets - Part 3
where is the driver located in opensuse.
I guessed right, I’m new:)
Yes, I need also the driver for the SiS graphic. The normal VESA Framebuffer graphic is to slow for normal Window Desktop Browsing. I’ need the driver for my Laptop it is a One U50SI1 this have a Silicon Integrated 6330 graphic card. The chip should accordingly the SiS 661/741. The resolution, I can therefore not likely to make 1280x800.
I hope your can help us.
I have a similar problem with my SIS graphics card. It is a M760GX, the worst video card I’ve ever known.
I just migrated to openSUSE from Ubuntu, and since Intrepid 8.10, it started giving me problems: colors don’t display well, everything looks like a very bad quality GIF animation.
I could solve the problem in Ubuntu, I just added the word “sisfb” to the file /etc/modules, which makes reference precisely to the module with that name… I restarted and voilà, everything was right again.
Unfortunately, there’s no /etc/modules file in openSUSE, and I’ve been looking for a similar answer, but it seems that there are not enough users with this problem to get some attention from anyone. I hope someone can find a solution similar to the one I found for Ubuntu, otherwise I’ll go back to that distro, because I can’t live with this bad color quality, even when openSUSE works a lot better with everything else compared to Ubuntu.
One more thing: the ‘sisfb’ module that I mentioned above was developed by Thomas Winischhofer, a guy that has given the community a lot of drivers for those horrible video cards from SIS. The one we supposedly need is called “The Linux SiS/XGI framebuffer driver (sisfb)”. He even puts some directions on how to use the driver:
*# For Linux kernel 2.6:
* Copy all .c and .h files EXCEPT "sisfb.h" over the existing ones in the kernel source tree ([kernel-tree]/drivers/video/sis/).
* Copy Makefile_2.6 as "Makefile" over the existing one in the sis driver directory (same as in step above)
* Copy sisfb.h over the existing one in [kernel-tree]/include/video/.
Please, I’ve tried to follow the directions in my computer, but all I get are thousands of errors. If someone else can be brave enough to try it, please post a reply here, and it will be greatly appreciated.
You can see most config files (with a short description) in Yast>System>/etc/sysconfig editor. It’s an editor for the various config files in /etc.
In the systems section, for example, you find the parameter MODULES_LOADED_AT_BOOT (from the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel). It may be what you want, but first go to the help center and take a look at openSUSE Documentation - Chapter 8. Booting and Configuring a Linux System / 8.3. System Configuration via /etc/sysconfig.
On 2009-03-02, carlossl <carlossl@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Please, I’ve tried to follow the directions in my computer, but all I
> get are thousands of errors. If someone else can be brave enough to try
> it, please post a reply here, and it will be greatly appreciated.
At one point, you have to ask yourself how much time you’re willing to put
into getting those drivers to work, before just swapping that SiS card with
something else. Unless your needs include some heavy 3D performance, you can
find very cheap cards that work just fine.
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Elevators smell different to midgets
First of all, I’d like to thank both of you for your time answering this thread.
I would love to change my graphics card, but guess what? This is a notebook hahaha 
(the worst experience I’ve ever had with a notebook, an Aspire 5000, it has a lot of issues with the graphics card [SIS M760GX] and the wireless card [Broadcom BCM4318])…
Anyway, don’t worry about the time I’ll have to spend trying to find a solution. If I can make this graphics card work, it won’t matter how much time I spend. Hopefully I’ll help someone else with a similar graphics card.
About the heavy 3D performance you mentioned, as far as I know, this SIS graphics card model won’t support it, according to what Thomas Winischhofer wrote on his website here, explaining that as it is a strange integrated chipset, it gives a lot of problems, even in Windows. So, what I only want to have is my 24 bit resolution, that’s all. I don’t care about desktop effects or running games.
And about the other answer about the config files in Yast>System>/etc/sysconfig editor… is it possible to bring to OpenSuse a sisfb module compiled in Ubuntu? I’m already expecting a ‘no’ answer, so in that case, how can I compile the module for openSuse? As I mentioned before, I already tried compiling the file with the latest kernel tree, and will still try to do it. If there’s another option, an easier option, hope someone can tell me.
Thanks in advance.
hi guys…
i change to linux this week and i use a fujitsu siemens v5515 with a sis 3 mirage or something like that… and i have the same problem my open suse 11.1 works with vesa driver and the 3d effects dont work and the colors and resolution are not the perfects…
somebody can help me with this problem??? i appreciate
see you soon
and help
curious I have an aspire 5000. and it works fine with suse proir to 11 . now the the laptop screen comes up grainy.
for me it looks like it is in the monitor detection. since if i connect to vga port it displays on the external monitor fine in 11.2 and 11.1 just not the laptop screen so it obviously not the the graphic driver…
but when I compare it to a setup in 10.3 where the aspire works fine… it detect the laptop monitor fine as a lpl lgphilipslcd lcd monitor … but in 11.1 and 11.2 it list as an unknown monitor
as an unknown monitor… I tried to change the monitor but I can not seem to find it the option to do this in 11.1 and 11.2 or perhaps I am just blind and missing it