Hi
first off let me say Mint is the best !
now let me ask for help getting it to run with good video on my acer laptop.
It has sis 760 video onboard and I am finding that many if not all new distros are not supporting it. can anyone help me get this up and running so I can replace the os currently in use, with mint 8?
thanks
Dan
sis video on acer laptop
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dcardinale
sis video on acer laptop
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MaddogF16
Re: sis video on acer laptop
It isn't that Linux doesn't want to support SIS, it's that SIS stays very MS bound and won't help by releasing much info about the cards, so in order to make it work they need to be reversed engineered, which is slow and very much a trial and error process.
Now if you had your choice to write drivers for a manufacture that will supply code and specs (Intel,ATI,Nvidia) or one that doesn't where would you put your efforts?
Google for that card +ubuntu 9.10 and see if someone has something figured out, but my guess would be the results will feel under whelming since they're still so MS centric (SIS that is).
Now if you had your choice to write drivers for a manufacture that will supply code and specs (Intel,ATI,Nvidia) or one that doesn't where would you put your efforts?
Google for that card +ubuntu 9.10 and see if someone has something figured out, but my guess would be the results will feel under whelming since they're still so MS centric (SIS that is).