• rich
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Topic: [Fix] Laptops with Sis Graphic cards and Wrong Colour Depth

If you use a laptop with a Sis graphics card, most Debian based distros will leave you with the default vesa driver (Sis have no proprietary Linux drivers), and you will log into a blotchy desktop with the wrong colour depth.

Basically you need to edit Grub to boot using the sisfb framebuffer.

Edit Grub

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

And where you have the line to boot Crunchbang (or any Debian based distro) where it says:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

Change to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=sisfb quiet"

Now you need to update Grub so that the changes to "default" are passed to /boot/grub/grub.cfg:

sudo update-grub

Now reboot and enjoy a bright clean desktop with the correct colours smile

Last edited by rich (2010-03-20 12:32:42)

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