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Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix? |
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:02:05 +0200 |
Ehlo Znavko,
address@hidden wrote:
oops, not sure it is intel.
SiS[0] is not Intel. They're a Taiwanese company whose graphics
division later became the ill-fated XGI for a while.
Takes me back… :-)
here i've placed driver https://gitgud.io/znavko/sis771
As was to be expected, that's not free software (or even open
source) (or even source).
You're probably breaking the law by even hosting that link:
there's no licence to be found anywhere, let alone one allowing
redistribution.
This is why proprietary software sucks.
Can anybody write package definition ?
Considering the fact that this is a 10-year-old binary blob for
use with >10-year old X.org, that it would be illegal to host the
origin unless you find a licence permitting that (unlikely), and
that it has 0% chance of ever making it into Guix proper, you're
very unlikely to find a volunteer to do this for you. And this
mailing list or any other Guix project channel would not be an
appropriate place to find them. Sorry.
On a more positive note: have you looked at
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sisimedia/
(or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-sis/)?
As you can see by the number of patches at that first link,
keeping such old hardware working with modern software presents
plenty of challenges—without adding those of binary blobs :-)
T G-R
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Integrated_Systems
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- Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, znavko, 2019/06/17
- Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, znavko, 2019/06/17
- Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, Mark H Weaver, 2019/06/17
- Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, znavko, 2019/06/17
- Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, znavko, 2019/06/18
Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?, znavko, 2019/06/16