Install video driver for SIS M671 / M672 family of video cards under Ubuntu 11.04

From the translator, i.e. me:
I spent a lot of time trying to make the video card work correctly on my ASUS K50C. All solutions that were search engines, were designed for the release of X-Server'a earlier (1.8) than the one in Natty Narwhal (1.10). In the end, I found a post on one of the foreign blogs. And this solution worked!
I hope my translation will help someone to spend time on something more useful.

So: how to install a video driver for SIS M671 / M672 video cards under Ubuntu 11.04


As you know, the new release of X-Server was released just a couple of days ago, and it is already included in Ubuntu 11.04.
So: this driver will work correctly on Ubuntu 11.04, verified!
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Installation is slightly different from the earlier options. The old driver simply had to be copied to the / usr / lib / xorg / modules / drivers / folder and configured xorg.conf, and now you have to build it and configure it yourself. Although there is a positive point: xorg.conf does not have to be bothered again.
I believe that you already know how to assemble and install and have everything you need for this.

Here is a list of what you need:
- git
- xorg-dev
- mesa-common-dev
- libdrm-dev
- libtool

I forgot the names of the other packages, just remind me of them and I will add the rest of the -dev packages.

Source codes (drivers, comment perev.) Are already patched by me and you do not need to patch them. The folder with the patch is available to anyone who wants to help support the relevance of the driver in the future.

Well, let's open the terminal and start the build:

$ git clone git://github.com/hellnest/xf86-video-sismedia-0.9.1.git
$ cd xf86-video-sismedia-0.9.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
$ make
$ sudo make install


Reboot and ready!

A small comment for users with a resolution of 1366x768:
You need to add these lines to xorg.conf (of course, if they are not there yet):

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseTiming1366" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Ok, that's it. I hope that you will like this release (drivers, comment perev.).
Thanks again to Paulo Zaunoni for this patch. I really owe you a lot.

upd: Thanks to everyone who answered my question about karma in q & a to help :)

upd2: Solution for X-Server 1.8 (Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier)

upd3: Thanks to the GamePad64, the PPA for this driver is organized, which means the installation has become even easier!