Re: F21/F22: xorg-x11-drv: which for SiS?

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Airlie wrote on 2014-09-23 02:55 (GMT-0400):
>
>> Felix Miata composed
>
>>> xorg-x11-drv-sis seems to have disappeared. Did that happen on purpose? It
>>> still exists as a selelection in Bugzilla. Xorg is looking for sis module but
>>> cannot find it. Gfxchip here is Z7/Z9 (XG20 core). Is it now supposed to be
>>> using some other (not installed) driver? Before today's upgrade, X still
>>> worked.
>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/190696.html
>
>> That?
>
> It's a start. Trouble is, the SiS driver isn't just for antiques. Mine is the
> onboard video chip for an LGA775 server motherboard[1]. Before current
> updates, X happily got the driver it wanted. Now looking, xorg-x11-drv-sis is
> not only missing from F21 & F22 repos, it's also missing for the F18, F19 &
> F20 releases, though it still lives in git:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/
>
> So, what exactly are people needing this driver supposed to do, particularly
> those for whom X worked before last round of updates, [...]

Remove your xorg.conf file. This blocks X autodetection from doing its job.
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