[sis 671/771 drivers]

[Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade]

Benjamin Wech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I looked up your faq about a possibly release of a working SIS 771/671
> 3D driver, but haven't found an affirmative answer. So I have to ask when
> it would be possible to use opengl/3D with this chip considering the
> fact it seems to be available for Windows, and following the post on
> this blog
> http://barroslee.blogspot.com/2007/09/release-sis671sis672-linux-3d-driver.html
> it should also be available for Linux - but nevertheless nobody gets

  You should try contacting SiS. I have some binaries (but no card),
but they probably would not help much now. Needs kernel 2.6.22,
xorg 1.3, and mesa 6.x (and need to replace libGL.so.1.2, and
libdrm.so.2.0.0).

> this driver. So would it be possible to run 3D with this chip and a
> X.org driver in future-releases? And how long would this take
> according to your expectations?
>
> Sincere regards
>
> Benjamin Wech
>
> P.S. Hope this text will be understandable, because I'm not really
> sure about my english.
  It is ok, but a subject would help :-)

Paulo