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[reinhard <maak2@xxxxxx>]

** Tags added: karmic
** Tags removed: intrepid

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-sis
  
  Ubuntu's drivers for SiS video on the Intel D201GLY2 motherboard have
  known issues, namely that there is "Vertical Noise" on the screen.  (It
  looks like it's displaying an incorrect pixel every time there's a write
  to video RAM).  It happens on Ubuntu's stock drivers on both Hardy and
  Intrepid (haven't tried earlier versions).
  
  Intel has their driver source code available which fixes the issues,
  except while it would compile under Hardy, it won't compile under
  Intrepid, apparently due to using a different xorg API.
  
  I recently tried switching from Hardy to Intrepid.  Before, I was able
  to use a binary driver which someone built for Hardy.  But on Intrepid,
  the binary driver has the wrong ABI version, so it won't work.
  
  I ended up reverting back to Hardy.
  
  Is there any work going on at making this motherboard work?  I briefly
  tried porting the code to the new API, but it was too complicated for
  me, considering that I know absolutely nothing about how to write xorg
  drivers.
+ 
+ This problem is still present in Karmic, even a little worse than
+ earlier.

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-sis
  
  Ubuntu's drivers for SiS video on the Intel D201GLY2 motherboard have
  known issues, namely that there is "Vertical Noise" on the screen.  (It
  looks like it's displaying an incorrect pixel every time there's a write
  to video RAM).  It happens on Ubuntu's stock drivers on both Hardy and
  Intrepid (haven't tried earlier versions).
  
  Intel has their driver source code available which fixes the issues,
  except while it would compile under Hardy, it won't compile under
  Intrepid, apparently due to using a different xorg API.
  
  I recently tried switching from Hardy to Intrepid.  Before, I was able
  to use a binary driver which someone built for Hardy.  But on Intrepid,
  the binary driver has the wrong ABI version, so it won't work.
  
  I ended up reverting back to Hardy.
  
  Is there any work going on at making this motherboard work?  I briefly
  tried porting the code to the new API, but it was too complicated for
  me, considering that I know absolutely nothing about how to write xorg
  drivers.
  
- This problem is still present in Karmic, even a little worse than
- earlier.
+ This problem is still present in Karmic, even a little worse than ever.

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Video on Intel D201GLY2 motherboard still broken, can't compile Intel's fixed drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297335
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