Dedicated for fellow fighters who relentlessly search for an answer on reviving old notebooks with cursed SIS Mirage 3+ 771/671 on-board VGA driver by installing shiny Xubuntu 18.04 LTS (the latest LTS when this article was written). Simply download this tar.gz file, extract 3 files (sisimedia_drv.so, sisimedia_drv.la, xorg.conf), then copy them to respected locations:
Restart then enjoy! ?
In case you are wondering, I decided to revive this old machine simply because it is my very first notebook that I bought with my own money. Well, to be exact I borrowed my parent’s money, then repaid it within few months using my tiny salary. Despite of its unpopular brand and horrible graphic card, it’s still working fine & physically looks mint after 10+ years ?
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Did not work. After restart: black screen and cursor.
P.S sorry my english is bad. :-D
Too bad. No idea why though. Maybe slightly different VGA or OS version?
P.S: Worry not. I'm not a native speaker anyway ?
Works fine one a Esprimo V5535 with Mint 19.2 Thanks a lot!
My laptop is axioo neon with [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) and xubuntu os, is it work ?
It supposed to work as it exactly match the driver's description. I tested this on Axioo Neon MNC 2122 with SiS M672 which is actually slightly different from the driver description.
Permisi Pak, saya di XFCE berbasis Ubuntu 18.04 LTS juga, dengan Xorg 1.20. Sayang, ketika saya berhasil instal drivernya, setelah direboot tidak muncul hasil yang diharapkan. Malah resolusinya kembali menjadi 800x600 dengan tulisan FAILED: sisimedia setelah nama driver saya.
Akhirnya saya balik kembali ke Vesa, 1024x720 tapi refresh ratenya 0 Hz. Rada menyedihkan sih, mungkin Bapak ada solusinya?
Wah kalau cara ini tidak berhasil, saya tidak ada ide lagi. Mungkin memang ada faktor lain ya. Di atas juga ada yang bilang tidak bisa ☹️
Didn't work for my MSI VR602 laptop (MS-163N). Thanks for your work though.
Sorry to hear that ☹️
Hi can you help me? i need the driver for 32bit version
Sorry, I even don't have any 32-bit OS running
Hi, I am trying this fix for my SiS672 graphics but I get "access denied" when I try to copy the files. I am the only user account listed but there is a 'Root' 'Owner' which is stopping me. How can I get around this please?
Uh, use
sudo?