topic title: xserver-xorg-video-sis to be removed?
Posts: 57
spacepenguin
Joined: 24 Nov 2012
#1
I just wanted to do a (long overdue) dist-upgrade and get the message that xserver-xorg-video-sis will be removed. Alas my old notebook depends on that module.

As it seems xserver-xorg-video-sis is not availabe in testing, only in stable and unstable. But even by activating unstable it would be removed.

I found a solution but I am not sure if it is appropriate: The siduction distribution which is based on Debian Unstable has a fixes repo (deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/"
linktext was:"http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/"
====================================
unstable main contrib non-free) with a new version of xserver-xorg-video-sis and when I add that repository nothing would be removed...

Could this be added to antiX?
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#2
Probiere es aus...

Ich habe seit der M11 z.B. den Kernel-Remover von aptosid in antiX12 und 13 in Anwendung. __{{emoticon}}__

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male@antiX1:~$ apt-cache policy kernel-remover
kernel-remover:
  Installiert:           3.1.11
  Installationskandidat: 3.1.11
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.1.11 0
        500 http://oscar.aptosid.com/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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~$ uname -a
Linux antiX1 3.7.0-10.dmz.1-liquorix-686 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 06:55:24 UTC 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
Posts: 609
dark-D
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
#3
try removing xserver-xorg-video-all because several old video drivers where removed upstream, here is the changelog.
then install xserver-xorg-video-sis if it's removed by the removal of xserver-xorg-video-all. i haven't used the siduction method, you can try it if you want.

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 xorg (1:7.7+4) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * Remove unmaintained drivers from xserver-xorg-video-all:
    - xserver-xorg-video-apm
    - xserver-xorg-video-ark
    - xserver-xorg-video-chips
    - xserver-xorg-video-i128
    - xserver-xorg-video-i740
    - xserver-xorg-video-newport
    - xserver-xorg-video-rendition
    - xserver-xorg-video-s3
    - xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
    - xserver-xorg-video-sis
    - xserver-xorg-video-suncg14
    - xserver-xorg-video-suncg3
    - xserver-xorg-video-suncg6
    - xserver-xorg-video-sunleo
    - xserver-xorg-video-suntcx
    - xserver-xorg-video-tga
    - xserver-xorg-video-tseng
    - xserver-xorg-video-voodoo

  [ Michael Stapelberg ]
  * report-bugs: tell people to file bugs upstream

  [ Maarten Lankhorst ]
  * Add xserver-xorg-video-modesetting on amd64 armhf i386.
  * Add xserver-xorg-video-qxl on amd64 i386.

 -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:55:41 +0200
Alanarchy
Posts 0
Alanarchy
#4
I just"fixed" things by downgrading to stable and reinstalling the stable xorg.

I was also trying to build SisCtrl but I'm having problems there too.