I unfortunately have notebook ASUS K50C which uses a sis graphics driver.
I tried many different options from different forums but I am still having screen resolution problems. Its screen resolution is still really low.
Despite that, I cannot watch any kind of video as computer becomes overloaded is not able to play the video normally.
I am currently using UBUNTU 14.04.
Can anyone help me to solve the problems or does anybody know which version of Ubuntu works fine with this computer?
Thanks in advance
Ubuntu – Which ubuntu version works fine with sis driver 671 771
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Best Answer
There is no currently supported version of Ubuntu which supports SiS 671/771 cards (this is bug #301958). Your options are:
Use an obsolete unsupported version of Ubuntu and never update. Not really recommended since you will not get security updates, but if you want to try it then 12.04.2 has been reported to work.
Try Linux Mint 13. There have been reports that it contains some older modified SiS driver that works.
Give up and buy a laptop with supported graphics. An old Thinkpad with ATI graphics can be bought for $50 on Ebay and it will run Xubuntu/Lubuntu well.
If you are a developer, you can fix the source. The issue has been brought up on the Xorg mailing list, and an Xorg developer responded (1 2)
Basically nobody knows what the actual problem is, so someone with the affected hardware needs to git-bisect the Xorg driver source and figure out how it got broken.
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