Created attachment 404498 [details] corrects segfault and compile errors xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 needs update, last gentoo maintenance 07/2012, last xf86 patches 11/2015 (to correct segfaults and compile failures). Patch attached. xorg-drivers-1.16.0 and xorg-drivers-1.16.0 both are blocked by xf86-video-sis-0.10.7. Recommend patch ebuild and version bump to xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-r1. Compile is successful but whether the driver works is unknown as there is no sis vga card here. Patch created and compile tested as follows: nano /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-drivers/xorg-drivers-1.16.ebuild edit last line !<=x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 to read !<x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 nano /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-drivers/xorg-drivers-1.17.ebuild edit next to last line !<=x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 to read !<x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 These changes should remove the block as long as either of them is effective. boot to the command line login as root run eselect kernel list if needed, run eselect kernel set <desired kernel version> Proceed to create and install patches: ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild clean ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild fetch ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild unpack mkdir /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 cp -aR /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7* /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 wget -o /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master.zip https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable/archive/master.zip unzip /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master.zip cp -aR /root/Downloads/xf86-video-sis-stable-master/src/* /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2/src cd /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work diff -Naru xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 > kernel-4.1.0-rc3.patch mkdir --parents /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 cp -a triennial_update.patch /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 patch -Np1 -d xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 < triennial_update.patch ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild install cd ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7.ebuild qmerge reboot startxfce4 emerge xf86-video-sis reboot startxfce4
Comment on attachment 404498 [details] corrects segfault and compile errors You can't flag it as a patch if it is compressed.
Also where did this patch come from? Did you write it?
https://github.com/gununu/xf86-video-sis-stable/archive/master.zip was the repository I exploited. I have some knowledge of github; none of the xf86 git. It looked as though the contents were similar or the same. The patch itself was generated by me as delineated in the comment above. Uncompressed it exceeded the 1000 kb limit so I compressed. My apologies for breaking the rules.
Ah, ok. So you want to have some changes backported. That makes more sense than the mega-patch you attached. Upstream repo: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-sis/
Instead of pulling patches out of github, I should just do a new release of the -sis driver. (...if someone actually needs it)
A new release of the -sis driver sounds perfect. Someone who needs it equals https://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=342420 on the forum.
Sorry for the delay. I've released v0.10.8 and pushed it into Gentoo straight to stable.
