Just FYI, the following procedure gave me a usable driver for
SiliconMotion:

Download http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-
siliconmotion/snapshot/xf86-video-siliconmotion-
deb2f845dd370ba819d02cb21b8a481827497af6.tar.bz2 and extract to some
local directory.

This is the latest version before release 1.7 of the driver that still
compiled for me out of the box on Ubuntu 8.10, and there are no
functional changes between this version and the 1.7 release.

> sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
> cd <directory of new driver code>
> ./autogen.sh
> make

This results in a new driver in ./src/.libs/siliconmotion_drv.so which
doesn't give me the 'AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0' error.

Maybe this is of use for somebody.

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