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Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?
Date: 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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