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On 17-04-2016 05:28 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 04/17/2016 12:44 PM, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: |
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>>> Have you have a look in your dmesg and your Xorg.0.log to see what |
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>>> they |
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>>> report? Is the firmware for the card specified correctly and does it |
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>>> load? |
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>> I think that's the problem, I have a sis 771/671 video integrated |
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>> card: |
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>> [sebas@parabolaSebas64 ~]$ lspci | grep -i vga |
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>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] |
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>> 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) |
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>> and none of the video drivers seems to work, except vesa and fbdev |
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>> (althought I'm still intrigated why DPMS works with vesa driver and |
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>> not |
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>> with fbdev driver) |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Sebas |
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> Have you tried the xorg SIS driver? It lists the 671 as a supported |
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> model @ http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/sis.4.html |
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The sis 771/671 it's not listed |
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> This is not a kernel driver, it's an xorg driver. |
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> Have you tried the steps here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SiS |
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> ? |
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Yes I did and with no luck. |
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> Those SIS cards are not exactly fast but using the proper Xorg driver |
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> with the proper parameters as per the Arch wiki may help it work. |
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> Dan |
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Anyway thanks Dan. |
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The original question (why DPMS is not working with the fbdev driver) |
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still remains open thou. |
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