Statux wrote: > I am building a system which has the Unichrome Pro IGP video > chipset (Via P4M800 Northbridge) and I cannot for the life of me > get the via driver for Xorg 7.x to work.
You mean x11-drivers/xf86-video-via-0.1.33.2 ? It's far too old for the 800 chips. And openchrome doesn't do regular releases (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147425) so if you want it working, you'll need to build from SVN. http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code > In fact, all I really > need (as this system will be my mother's when I'm done with it) > is a simple 2D display with 16bit color because she, most likely, > will not be using anything accellerated Then simply use the vesa driver. At depth 16 it should work perfectly. 3D acceleration will not really work on the 800 chips anyway: the Mesa stuff for the unichrome is unmaintained and there is a bug in the textures code that trips up the 800s. Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
