Re: [gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg
[snip] 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. Well that explains that. http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code [snip] 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. I was avoiding use of the vesa driver for some reason but I'll give it a try and see if I can get anywhere. Yeah, all my mother needs is a straight 2D environment. I'm not big on on-board video/audio/networking but for light use, it's ok. If she were to ever need something with more juice, I'd get a seperate 3D card anyway. Thanks. Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
