Same problem here. Arran
>Just thought I should share.. > >I tried your suggestion, and I didn't get serious any errors either. But it >didn't quite work >and I got a black screen screen. It didn't lock up or >anything and everything seemed fine >(except that it didn't work). > >2009/1/19 Markus Schöpflin <[email protected]>: > 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. > > -- > xorg fails to start > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292568 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- xorg fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292568 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
