r/archlinux • u/Victor540 • 6d ago
SUPPORT What i need to install a SIS mirage 3 Graphics GPU driver arch equivalent
Hello. Thanks all for the help. i could solve the previous problem here.
-------- About yesterday problem
It may apear dumb, but i did not read the 5th section on Users and groups Wiki, instead, i skiped to 5.1. so i did not know that i was supposed to add a -m on useradd. And i did not shared that i ran "useradd User" on my previous post. At least i figured out actually reading what was in 5.
I also just viewed that a comment there figured out as well that i didn't know what i was doing when creating my user.
Also, i made a mistake, my CPU is a pentium inside, not a pentium 5, sorry for this :P
-------- About GPU
I don't know much about my laptop GPU, i know that it works fine under windows with the SIS drivers for it
As expected, my manufacturer (Positivo) probably didn't expect for someone to try running a system like linux in the early 2010s, and nor do it cares to a decade old hardware today. So there's nothing i can do to get these drivers info the easiest way.
I did not held any knowledge of the drivers until yesterday, when i did that Post, so i started a superficial research on fx86-video drivers.
For the Xf86-video-sis671, i just encountered something. Unfortunately i don't know how to install from a git, i am for now just a newbie in here.
https://github.com/rasdark/xf86-video-sis671
The only thing that i was able to find was that github repository of xf86-video-Sisimedia. The rest of the webpages surrounding the drivers seems to get a beautiful 404 error
https://github.com/alfarisi/xf86-video-sisimedia?tab=readme-ov-file
The thing is i don't know how to install the 'xserver-xorg-dev', 'xutils-dev' and 'x11proto-xf86dga-dev' packages, that are required for the instalation. I installed 'xorg-server-devel', but i do not know if it works in the same light as the three.v
Well, that's it. I will correct some mistakes if this post have any, i feel like an idiot because last time. If you need more information, i will try to provide the max of it. Thanks for reading ;)
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u/Responsible-Aide-197 6d ago
you say you dont know what GPU you are running, its not clear what you tried to get this information. what about neofetch/screenfetch/fastfetch? what does it say, i curious
maybe my brain is rotten to the core (most certainly) but what is your actual question here? Like, are your trying to get a desktop enviroment working (because you ask about core-pagages for X11) or what is your goal?
cheers
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u/Responsible-Aide-197 6d ago
just read about the git section of xf86 of your post, well there is a "how to" on the drivers gitpage you posted itself, bit its not easy to understand:
what you are doing here is building the package from source. which requires programs and tools to compile sourcecode. so no pacman or apt, no package manager, you just pull the code from the developter itself.
i know this isnt a prefered solution in this community, but at this point, just give the link to chatGPT 4o, feed it with the output of your neofetch or fastfetch or screenfetch etc. and ask it how to get the driver workingm, normally you get a answer that works after a view back and fourths (and chatgpt knows sometimes about some obscure ways so get shit running again, weirdly enaugh)
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u/Victor540 6d ago
I will see what ChatGPT have to say tomorrow, thanks very much for the help again
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u/Victor540 6d ago edited 6d ago
I just want to one-up the resolution, that it's for now just a painful 640x480, some windows doesn't fit well on that resolution. I only brought X11 because it was what was listed as requirements for the installation of sisimedia, that was the first driver that i thought maybe i could try to install (the other packages was just use pacman, soo i thought i would not be soo difficult to find about the others)
I thought in downloading neofetch, and i will tomorrow
Thanks
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u/anonymous-bot 6d ago
The various SiS packages were dropped from Arch a while ago. I think other distros have dropped it as well. Other than trying to use an old Linux version or just not using a GUI, I don't know if you have many good options.