You took the words out of my mouth, Jane! Regards
Denis Redfern Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Jun 2020, at 10:35 pm, Jane Fong <[email protected]> wrote: > > The best bugfix method! > Wait 15 years until hardware totally obsolete -> problem solved! > >> On 6/16/20, Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]> wrote: >> this driver has been removed from Ubuntu, closing the bugs >> >> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-sis (Ubuntu) >> Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix >> >> -- >> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a >> duplicate bug report (164258). >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297335 >> >> Title: >> Video on Intel D201GLY2 motherboard broken, can't compile Intel's >> fixed SiS662 drivers >> >> Status in xserver-xorg-video-sis: >> Invalid >> Status in xserver-xorg-video-sis package in Ubuntu: >> Won't Fix >> Status in xserver-xorg-video-sis package in Baltix: >> New >> Status in xserver-xorg-video-sis package in Fedora: >> Won't Fix >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-sis >> >> Ubuntu's drivers for SiS video on the Intel D201GLY2 motherboard have >> known issues, namely that there is "Vertical Noise" on the screen. >> (It looks like it's displaying an incorrect pixel every time there's a >> write to video RAM). It happens on Ubuntu's stock drivers on both >> Hardy and Intrepid (haven't tried earlier versions). >> >> Intel has their driver source code available which fixes the issues, >> except while it would compile under Hardy, it won't compile under >> Intrepid, apparently due to using a different xorg API. >> >> I recently tried switching from Hardy to Intrepid. Before, I was able >> to use a binary driver which someone built for Hardy. But on >> Intrepid, the binary driver has the wrong ABI version, so it won't >> work. >> >> I ended up reverting back to Hardy. >> >> Is there any work going on at making this motherboard work? I briefly >> tried porting the code to the new API, but it was too complicated for >> me, considering that I know absolutely nothing about how to write xorg >> drivers. >> >> This problem is still present in Karmic, even a little worse than >> ever. >> >> To manage notifications about this bug go to: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/297335/+subscriptions >> > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (164258). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297335 > > Title: > Video on Intel D201GLY2 motherboard broken, can't compile Intel's > fixed SiS662 drivers > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/297335/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297335 Title: Video on Intel D201GLY2 motherboard broken, can't compile Intel's fixed SiS662 drivers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/297335/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
