Re: how do i make compiz work with SiSM760GX card?

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

Amitakhya Phukan wrote:
> $subject,
> the laptop is Acer Aspire 3003. The Acer company says that the card
> supports 3D Acceleration Graphics. but when i try to "enable desktop
> effects", it says "couldn't enable desktop effects". Xorg.0.log says the
> dri module is loaded but then it is unloaded. please help. is there any
> workaround?the xorg-x11-drv-sis is installed but still the desktop
> effects can't be enabled.
> regards,
> amit.

You don't.

SiS' numbering scheme is utter insanity, but basically it looks like this:

(core: model numbers)

Old: 5597, 5598, 6236, 530, 620
300: 300, 305, 540, 630, 730
315: 315, 55x, 650, 651, 740, 661, 741
330: 330 (aka "Xabre"), 760, 761
340: 34x, and various XGI Volari cards (Z7, Z9, V3XT, V3XE, V5, V8)

The SiS DRI driver _only_ supports the 300 core, which means that's the 
only series where compiz is going to work.  Fixing that would basically 
involve writing a new DRI driver, possibly up to one for each core.

- ajax