topic title: AntiX 15 b3-V
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#151
RE: SIS Video Driver Failure

Alternative SIS driver found
post40203.html#p40203

Announcement alternative SIS driver included in beta
post40356.html?hilit=%20SIS#p40356

Previously reported failing
post40606.html?hilit=%20SIS#p40606

Tested again in 15-b3 and failed
Boot parameters (live no persistence)

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cat /proc/cmdline
vga=788 lang=en_GB quiet splash=off
inxi report from 15-b3

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inxi -c 0 -G
Graphics:  Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#152
SamK - re SIS.

I would be interested to know if Debian Jessie works with SIS. Have you tried it?
anticapitalista
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#153
SamK wrote:Main Menu Header Items

Previously reported and remains unaddressed
post39379.html#p39379
The inclusion of Menu Manager now makes this particularly easy to do.
This has been addressed. It is not going to change.
anticapitalista
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#154
SamK wrote:Re: IceWM Applet Monitors

Previously reported and remains unaddressed

post40285.html#p40285
As posted in previous report, noone else has this issue.
anticapitalista
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#155
SamK wrote:ROX-Filer Send to Matters

Select a file in ROX
Right Click-->Send To-->New Window as root
Fails

Affected script
/usr/local/bin/rox-as-root.sh
due to removal of ktsuss in antiX-15


Also in Send To menu
Encrypt-Decrypt
Not sure what this is meant to do but it does not seem to be doing it.

On the TO FIX list
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#156
anticapitalista wrote: Re Main Menu Header Items
This has been addressed. It is not going to change.

ROX-Filer Send to Matters
On the TO FIX list
OK, thanks for the update.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#157
anticapitalista wrote: Re: IceWM Applet Monitors
As posted in previous report, noone else has this issue.
It is consistently as reported here.

Using same hardware
Live in 13.2 symptoms are not seen. 14/15 symptoms seen.
Something has been introduced or changed since 13.2 to produce the issue.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#158
Re: SIS Video Driver Failure
anticapitalista wrote:I would be interested to know if Debian Jessie works with SIS. Have you tried it?
Yes, I can confirm it works in Jessie. All testing of it has been done in Jessie.

Have a look at the original report of success in the 2nd half of this post.
post40203.html#p40203
For good measure I repeated it again today and obtained exactly the same successful outcome.

This post was made from the system booted live, on which the sisimedia driver was compiled at the console, then switched to X, and running Iceweasel. All done courtesy of sisimedia driver.
anticapitalista
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#159
SamK, (re SIS) what happens if you boot to console and make the changes to etc/xorg.conf?
Those SIS drivers you liked to on git are included in antiX, but they don't seem to get detected.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#160
Re SIS Video Driver
anticapitalista wrote:...what happens if you boot to console and make the changes to etc/xorg.conf?
I didn't need to edit to edit that file, one was present in / etc/X11/xorg.conf containing the correct value.

I follwed verbatim the developer's instructions to compile the driver

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable"
linktext was:"https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable"
====================================


I expected to have to edit xorg.conf but found it was unnecessary.

My original post shows 2 xorg.conf files
post40203.html#p40203

The first was from a standard boot of antiX to GUI (X)
Live: no persistence
Boot params: quiet splash=off vga=788
Using: vesa


The second was from a standard boot of antiX to console (no X)
Live: no persistence
Boot params: quiet splash=off vga=788
Using: fbdev
then compiling the driver and switch to X via the startx command to use the sisimedia driver

Both are reproduced below for convenience. The only difference is the name of the driver in the Device section.

Using vesa

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cat / etc/X11/xorg.conf
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# xorg.conf file
#
# Generated by make-xorg-conf sometime around Thu Mar 26 09:43:37 GMT 2015
#
# If you want to save customizations, delete the line above or this
# file will get automatically deleted on the next live boot.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

Section"Monitor"
    Identifier"Monitor0"
    Option"DPMS""true"
    HorizSync    30-75
    VertRefresh  55-70
EndSection

Section"Device"
    Identifier"Device0"
    Driver    "vesa"   <------------NAME VALUE REFERRED TO
EndSection

Section"Screen"
    Identifier"Screen0"
    Monitor"Monitor0"
    Device "Device0"
    SubSection"Display"
        Modes "1280x1024""1333x768""1024x768""800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Using fbdev to sisimedia

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cat / etc/X11/xorg.conf
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# xorg.conf file
#
# Generated by make-xorg-conf sometime around Thu Mar 26 08:53:16 GMT 2015
#
# If you want to save customizations, delete the line above or this
# file will get automatically deleted on the next live boot.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

Section"Monitor"
    Identifier"Monitor0"
    Option"DPMS""true"
    HorizSync    30-75
    VertRefresh  55-70
EndSection

Section"Device"
    Identifier"Device0"
    Driver    "sisimedia"   <------------NAME VALUE REFERRED TO
EndSection

Section"Screen"
    Identifier"Screen0"
    Monitor"Monitor0"
    Device "Device0"
    SubSection"Display"
        Modes "1280x1024""1333x768""1024x768""800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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kmathern
Joined: 25 Aug 2012
#161
I know it's not the autodetection you're looking for, but have you tried adding a"xorg=sisimedia" (without the quotes) boot parameter?
I just tried that when booting a beta3 live session (also added a"3" since I don't actually have a sis gpu), it does generate a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the driver set to"sisimedia".
anticapitalista
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#162
I'm confused, SamK.

You boot to init3 and the xorg.conf is wrong? If so, without compiling the driver, can you change xorg.conf to Driver"sisimedia" and does it then work?
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#163
controlCentre --} Tools --} Search

The spaceFM util doesn't even support reordering/sorting the results view by column header !

Please consider replacing the"SpaceFM File Search" with"SearchMonkey" (500Kb debian package).

Upon installation, searchmonkey can be launched via menu (Applications--}Accessories).
(Mentioning this b/c although I'm content with a"search" link being provided in controlCenter, I understand Sam's concern and, arguably,"search" isn't a"control" tool)
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BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#164
kmathern wrote:I know it's not the autodetection you're looking for, but have you tried adding a"xorg=sisimedia" (without the quotes) boot parameter?
I just tried that when booting a beta3 live session (also added a"3" since I don't actually have a sis gpu), it does generate a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the driver set to"sisimedia".
Good suggestion. BTW: by default, the /sbin/make-xorg-conf program will only use drivers that are found in the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ directory unless the -f (--force) option is used. This option is not used when interpreting the"xorg=xxxx" boot parameter. For example, in beta3 the file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sisimedia_drv.so exists so make-xorg-conf was willing to create an xorg.conf for the"sisimedia" driver. If you specify a driver that is not in that directory then you will get a big red error message.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#165
anticapitalista wrote:I'm confused, SamK.
I think we were talking at crossed purposes.
anticapitalista wrote:...without compiling the driver, can you change xorg.conf to Driver"sisimedia" and does it then work?
Yes, I confirm the edit works, see the inxi report.

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cat / etc/X11/xorg.conf
Graphics:  Card: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: N/A
           Resolution: 1280x1024@75.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
The Applications menu isn't populated and I could not get Iceweasel to start, (claims profile is missing) and no conky, perhaps these are related to the way antiX was started.