On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 20:30 -0300, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > On 17-04-2016 06:56 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > > On 17-04-2016 22:17, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > lspci | grep -i vga > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > > > 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) > > > > > > but I couldn't an xorg driver that's support my video card. > > > > > > I try this > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SiS > > > but with no luck. > > > > > > Anyone else using this video card? > > > > > > Many thanks in advance. > > > > > > > The most I could find was this [1-2]. You may have to build the driver > > from git but it might not work given that the last commit was from last > > year. > > > > I seem to recall reading something about some drivers not being > > supported or not supporting something since a few xorg releases, but I > > can't remember (or find) where I read that. > > > > > > [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/sis/ > > [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/ > > Many thanks. Maybe I'll give it a try, although I'm not very much > inclined to the build driver solution. > > Just in case you know, I was using the vesa driver but start not working > properly (some issue with the rendenring) so I'm right now using the > fbdev driver, but with the switch (from vesa to fbdev) the DPMS stops > working, any ideas? Have you tried using Xorg's modesetting driver? Just remove all other drivers and Xorg will rely on it. It may be a possible alternative for you. See "man modesetting".
