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Juanito:
It’s normal for xorg to look for its preferred driver for your hardware, but in your case the siliconmotion driver is a separate package that would need to be compiled.

You could try the modesetting driver, which is included, like this:
--- Code: --- tce-load -i graphics-KERNEL Xorg-7.7-3d flwm aterm wbar
startx
--- End code ---
..but Xorg-7.7-3d might not work with a pentium II.

The resolution can be changed via an Xorg.conf snippet - if you search the forum you should find an example.

Juanito:
xf86-video-siliconmotion added to the tc-15.x x86 repo.

So:
--- Code: --- tce-load -i xf86-video-siliconmotion Xorg-7.7 flwm aterm wbar
startx
--- End code ---

t18:
Unfortunately that driver doesn't work: the screen stays blank and no Xorg.log is created.

I know that many people have had problems with it in the past decades (this is dated 2010-12: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45634), so I'd look for alternative configurations (unless to find a way for it to work properly).

Do you think it would be possible?

Juanito:
The silicon motion driver looks to be from 2023.

Did you try the modesetting driver (graphics-KERNEL + Xorg-7.7-3d)?

Why not use Xorg-7.7 on its own with a conf snippet to change the resolution?

t18:

--- Quote from: Juanito on June 03, 2024, 03:35:29 PM ---The silicon motion driver looks to be from 2023.
--- End quote ---

Yes, it's the latest version but on other distros gives errors like the previous ones.


--- Quote ---Did you try the modesetting driver (graphics-KERNEL + Xorg-7.7-3d)?

--- End quote ---

It seems certain things haven't changed since 2014:

"xf86-video-modesetting definitely won't work, it requires a KMS driver, and there's no such driver for siliconmotion. "
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187477


--- Quote ---Why not use Xorg-7.7 on its own with a conf snippet to change the resolution?

--- End quote ---

I'll try that and report it to you asap.

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