I had a broken hdd in my laptop 2 days ago. It made me to decide to find another hdd and install my Linux Backbox into it. Something made me worry, I forgot how to set the monitor to the appropriate setting. Then I had to browse the google once more. Here is what I looked for : sis671 driver for my 64bit Backbox.
I manage to find them. Cause I still keep those two in my own repo driver. I copy them to
#sudo cp sis671.la /usr/lib/xorg/modules/driver
#sudo cp sis671.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/driver
Then Everything not goin right. I still have the 480×600 resolution. Then I went to grub setting at boot. I put vga=791 to force the display resolution up. It worked. But I didn’t satisfied, it should not be stop at 1024×768. Before this I manage to have 1280×768. Just I forgot how.
Then Googling again and find out about edid.bin. Actually just a blind guess, cause the source said it was used for nvida driver not my sis671. But what the hell. And sorry source, I forgot to write down your address. I tried to search you again in my history chrome but hell, that’s a lot of them so naaaaaaaa I’ll find you later.
According to the source I copied the edid.bin file to /root. Cause it goes to a reference in xorg.conf. And I also copied the xorg.conf but I modified myself cause it is not nvidia but sis. I will use sis671 driver that I copied earlier.
Here is my xorg.conf
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
EndSectionSection “Files”
RgbPath “/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1”
EndSectionSection “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “extmod”
Load “type1”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
EndSectionSection “ServerFlags”
Option “Xinerama” “0”
EndSectionSection “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Mouse0”
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “auto”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSectionSection “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Keyboard0”
Driver “kbd”
option “AutoRepeat” “250 50”
option “CoreKeyboard”
option “XkbRules” “xorg”
option “XkbModel” “microsoftnek4k”
option “XkbOptions” “caps:internal_nocancel+lv3(switch)+compose(me nu)”
EndSectionSection “Monitor”
# HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “DFP-0”
HorizSync 28.0 – 80
VertRefresh 43.0 – 120
#ModeLine “1440x900_60.00” 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync
Modeline “1280x768_60.00” 79.50 1280 1344 1472 1664 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
Option “DPMS”
EndSectionSection “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “sis671”
VendorName “”
BoardName “”
EndSectionSection “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Videocard0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “1”
Option “TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder” “DFP-0”
Option “metamodes” “DFP-0: 1440x900_60.00 +0+0, DFP-1: 1440x900_60.00 +1440+0”
Option “MonitorLayout” “TDMS”
Option “CustomEDID” “DFP-0:/root/edid.bin; DFP-1:/root/edid.bin”
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Then Reboot.
Oh pay attention to the modeline line in the xorg. I change the original one to my setting. The how to get the modeline is through this command.
#cvt 1280 768
The result will be like this :
# 1280×768 59.87 Hz (CVT) hsync: 47.78 kHz; pclk: 79.50 MHz
Modeline “1280x768_60.00” 79.50 1280 1344 1472 1664 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
Copy and put the result into the xorg.conf. Then reboot again. And my laptop is fine now.
Oh just for the record, not for publishing reason, I didn’t get paid anyway from the manufacturer, I use Axioo Neon MNC 215p.