Description of problem: When using the sis x.org driver with a SiS 662 integrated graphics card on an Intel D201GLY2 motherboard, vertical lines with quickly varying horizontal lines extending out from them appear on the screen at all times. By using a custom "premium" driver, as described in the last post on the following page, the issue is resolved: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=463077&page=8 The lines also disappear when the VESA driver is used, but that is far too slow. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and use xorg-x11-drv-sis 2. 3. Actual results: Vertical lines through screen Expected results: No vertical lines through screen Additional info:
Reporter, I am sorry but I have a bad news for you. According to http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart4.shtml#download, Thomas Winischhofer "[t]he premium version. This version is only available in binary form and for a fee. It has advanced features not available in the Free Version.", so I don't think we can carry it. Do I understand correctly that somebody ripped out a binary driver out of the Thomas' distribution for-fee tarball?
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
I apologize, I missed the notification of the previous comment. Yes, the driver I was using was taken from a for-fee tarball. I was hoping that the redhat team could port whatever techniques he's using in that distribution to the free, default driver, since the non-free driver I'm using hasn't been supported in quite awhile and is quite flaky (segfaults with certain xorg.conf configurations, etc.). Perhaps that violates RedHat's philosophy, however. Thanks!
It’s not the question of philosophy, we just cannot read binary any better than you can :-). Closing as CANTFIX
The source is available for download here: http://www.winischhofer.net/sis/sisp.tar.gz Intel has also just released a source driver, but it comes from the same author and I have no experience with it: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&Inst=Yes&ProductID=2873&DwnldID=15443&strOSs=39&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng