Better drivers for SiS 650/740 integrated video?
- by Bart van Heukelom
I installed Xubuntu 10.10 on an old box today and the graphical performance is horrid. According to lspci, the video card is this:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8081
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 11
BIST result: 00
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e7800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: sisfb
Is there a way to make it faster? Alternative drivers? The additional drivers tool shows nothing.
I'm specifically interested in improving Java's Java2D rendering speed, because I'll be running a "stat screen" written in that language on it.