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FS#53344 - [linux] kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/sis/sis.ko.gz is missing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by James (thx1138) - Friday, 17 March 2017, 03:16 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 17 March 2017, 23:59 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/sis/sis.ko.gz is missing.

In the config file,

CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m

is present, but

CONFIG_DRM_SIS=m

has gone missing entirely.

Without the sis module, there is no /dev/dri/card0, and so no graphics.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 17 March 2017, 23:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by James (thx1138) - Friday, 17 March 2017, 22:58 GMT
Oops - nevermind - the xorg sis driver does not even use the /dev/dri/card0 interface. Also, the drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig describes this driver as DRI1, which wikipedia says should not even work with the current DRI3.

The xorg SiS driver, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so, works fine with the old 4.4 series linux-lts kernels, and fails with at least the 4.6 kernels. I suspect libpciaccess, but xorg has not responded to a bug posting, at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53344.

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