I'm new at linux.I'm strugling with getting things work properly on my first linux installation on old laptop.Anyone knows how can I check/test my 2d acceleration? See if it's on/off and working correctly and as efficient as it should?I have SIS 771/671 on Zorin OS 8 Lite. I believe the resolution should be better (it's 1024x768 right now and it looks a bit stretched horizontaly I assume 1024x1800 could look fine) and I feel video could go more smoothly and also I see some horizontal lines on the screen when playing movies.So basically I think that the video driver is still not proper here. I found this instruction here at comment #230:sis drivers discussionbut to be honest I don't understand the steps described and am not able to follow. Could someone explain in a simple-step-by-step way what should be done to install this patch as I hope i could help:https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=xf86-video-sisimediabtw the patch is for 13.04 - will it also work or be needed for 13.10?Otherwise is there any other recommended lite distro on which SIS 771/671 could work fine and with acceleration ON?btw. Before Zorin OS 8 Lite I installes OS 9 LITE, but it was even worse - initial resolution was 640x480 with no other options and moving any application window upon the desktop was extremely slow.Thanks in advance for your help.
How to enable graphics acceleration for SIS 771/671 on Zorin OS 8 lite (lubuntu 13.10)
drivers;video;lubuntu;graphic card;zorin