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Post subject: openChrome VIA graphic driver
 Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 02:47 PM
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Hi guys,
I've found a driver for the VIA/S3G UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 graphics chipsets (CLE266, KM400/KN400/KM400A/P4M800, CN400/PM800/PN800/PM880, K8M800, CN700/VM800/P4M800Pro, CX700, P4M890, K8M890, P4M900/VN896) under http://www.openchrome.org. What about adding it to the sidux repos/releases to provide a better hardware support?
I built some debs, that you can find here.
I've written this already in the german part of the forum.
Greetings
Rhaven |
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Post subject: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 11:56 AM
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| That's probably out of our scope, just. We'd prefer that all X drivers went through the correct channels -> debian X strike force, or at least sponsored to debian. This ensures the quality of X driver is controlled by someone != us. |
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Post subject: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 - 01:35 PM
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Ok, then I will do this. Thank you for your answer.
EDIT: It's going to go in unstable... |
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Post subject: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 27, 2008 - 06:26 PM
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Rhaven wrote:
Ok, then I will do this. Thank you for your answer.
EDIT: It's going to go in unstable...
Do I understand it the right way: You managed to get the openchrome drivers available in a regular, official debian/sid repo? |
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Post subject: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 27, 2008 - 06:31 PM
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michaa wrote:
Rhaven wrote:
Ok, then I will do this. Thank you for your answer.
EDIT: It's going to go in unstable...
Do I understand it the right way: You managed to get the openchrome drivers available in a regular, official debian/sid repo?
Think Rhaven meant that he'd email the maintainer for the drivers about their inclusion in Debian |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 28, 2008 - 12:53 AM
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| Too late for me. I got tired of banging my head on the wall so I sold the bugger to a windows user and bought a Lenovo! Good luck openchrome, but you must do battle with via/m$ alliance. Not me. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 28, 2008 - 01:29 PM
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Do I understand it the right way: You managed to get the openchrome drivers available in a regular, official debian/sid repo?
I wanted to say, that the X-Strike-Force team already knew openchrome, it wasn't me who brought it in official debian, and has it already included in git. Unstable will comming soon. You can find the current state here |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 28, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: openChrome VIA graphic driver
Posted: Mar 28, 2008 - 02:25 PM
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| Please ping us once it enters unstable, we'll include it in the next release then. |
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Posted: Mar 30, 2008 - 11:17 AM
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I can only comment on the p4m900
http://www.sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-6213.html
Best option is steer clear of recent VIA if you run Linux. They don't want you to. Officially VIA supply a linux driver but I found no forum post anywhere from anyone who even got it working at all. They refuse to release source code.
I was using openchrome from svn since last August. That managed to achieve a (mostly) usable stability but no more than that. Any kind of advanced/3D graphics e.g. googleearth is apparently out of the question any time soon. However openchrome is superior to vesa (which gave me just a blank screen on closing X) and seems actively maintained. |
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Posted: Jun 17, 2008 - 05:08 PM
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Hi guys,
it is now as "xserver-xorg-video-openchrome" in the official debian repositories. Please include it in your next release.
Best regards
Rhaven |
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Posted: Jun 17, 2008 - 06:41 PM
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| Thanks, already taken care of about 4 days ago. The real question would be now, if - and how it works. |
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Posted: Jun 17, 2008 - 07:04 PM
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On my laptop with Via Chrome9 HC IGP (P4M900/VN896) it works.
I had to chose it in the section "Device" in the xorg.conf as driver (Driver "openchrome") and had to enable the option softwarecursor. (Option "SWCursor" "1").
And I had to add the patch in the appendix to the kernel to have full avaible support for my chipset.
Furthermore I had to add this patch to libdrm to provide full drm support for my chipset. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 08:59 PM
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| Following these issues (and a missing PCI ID identification) pending implementation for Debian, "xserver-xorg-video-openchrome" has been removed (in favour of "xserver-xorg-via") from the Έρεβος line-up again. While it doesn't seem to be ready yet, it might be for Ωυρέα. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 10:23 PM
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| Chances are good to get your DRM patch applied to Debian, if you file a well phrased wishlist bug against libdrm in the Debian BTS; the kernel patch is less of a problem to apply for sidux. |
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