Hello Pedro,

I solved the problem long ago by manually adding "sisfb" at the end of
the file /etc/modules, found this hint googling around, don't remember 
where.

I never tested if the new releases work without this trick.

Thanks for everything you are doing for the community

Ciao, Ernesto


On Thu, 19 May 2011, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:

> Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or
> feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an
> issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May
> you please test with that version and comment back if you're still
> having or not the issue? Please have a look at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that
> version.Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: gst0.10-python (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
>  Ubuntu 9.10 on ACER Aspire 3000 does not detect display
>
> Status in “gst0.10-python” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Acer Aspire 3000 which was agonizing
>  under windows XP. All works fines except for the display which shows
>  lousy colours. Doing "system->preferences->display" i get a "unkown"
>  display, "detect monitors" does not help.  Below are extra-
>  information. Many thanks for your attention
>
>  ---- output from "lsb_release -rd"
>  Description: Ubuntu 9.10
>  Release:     9.10
>
>  ----- output from lspci
>  > lspci
>  00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
>  00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
>  00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media 
> IO] (rev 25)
>  00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
>  00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
>  00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 
> a0)
>  00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 
> Sound Controller (rev a0)
>  00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller 
> (rev 0f)
>  00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller 
> (rev 0f)
>  00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
>  00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI 
> Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
>  00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
>  00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 
> 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>  00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
>  00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> Address Map
>  00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM 
> Controller
>  00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> Miscellaneous Control
>  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
> 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  Architecture: i386
>  CheckboxCommand: gst_pipeline_test -t 2 'videotestsrc ! ffmpegcolorspace ! 
> gconfvideosink'
>  CheckboxDescription:
>   Click the Test button to display a video test.
>
>   Do you see color bars and static?
>  CheckboxTest: video
>  Date: Fri Feb  5 22:35:24 2010
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
>  Package: python-gst0.10 0.10.17-1
>  ProcEnviron:
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
>  SourcePackage: gst0.10-python
>  Tags: checkbox-bug
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
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