FS#27788 - [xf86-video-sisimedia] dependency on sis-dri should be optional

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexander (AlexanderR) - Sunday, 01 January 2012, 11:44 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 18 March 2012, 21:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Some devices supported by this driver (for example Sis Mirage 3 - sis671) do not have proper 3D drivers. With xf86-video-sisimedia installed Xorg starts but issues message about bad format of sis_dri.so-provided structure. DRI is disabled anyway.


Steps to reproduce:
Find somewhere notebook with sis671-series card, install xf86-video-sisimedia, start Xorg

Possible workaround:
Make xf86-video-sisimedia dependency on sis-dri optional.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 21:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Latest version no longer supports dri (sis-dri is dead).
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 16 January 2012, 22:39 GMT
Assigned to last packager
Comment by Federico Di Pasquali (rude_metal) - Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 10:45 GMT
Now driver for sis671 is broken due substitution of sis-dri with libgl, but xf86-video-sisimedia still need sis-dri. Got my system working using vesa driver.

I think that
>>>>
Possible workaround:
Make xf86-video-sisimedia dependency on sis-dri optional.
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could work.

Need some information? Now I really don't know were to start

Comment by Alexander (AlexanderR) - Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 13:18 GMT
Ha ha ha this issue have become obsolete before it was resolved :(

2Federico Di Pasquali (rude_metal)

in /etc/pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg=xorg-server xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev xf86-video-ati

$ pacman -Qi xorg-server xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev xf86-video-ati | grep Version
Version : 1.11.4-1
Version : 1.5.0-1
Version : 2.6.0-4
Version : 6.14.3-1

Works fine.

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