@ Maarten Lankhorst, Yes. When I boot the Lubuntu Trusty 20131129 i386 DVD to the llive DE on that VIA P4M800 box I just get a blank screen, but you can tell the backlight is on.
Booting the same image on my Intel box shows this version info: lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 521 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:0.3.3-1 Provides: xorg-driver-video Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxext6, libxv1, libxvmc1, xorg-video-abi-14, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.14.2.901-2ubuntu4~) Description: X.Org X server -- VIA display driver OpenChrome is a project for the development of free and open-source drivers for the VIA UniChrome video chipsets. . Originally called the 'snapshot' release, since it was a snapshot of an experimental branch of the unichrome cvs code, this is a continued development of the open source unichrome driver (from http://unichrome.sf.net) which also incorporates support for the unichrome-pro chipsets. . Support for hardware acceleration (XvMC) for all chipsets has subsequently been ripped out of the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore your only option if you wish to make use of the acceleration features of your VIA chip with free and open-source drivers is to use this version of the driver. Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]> Homepage: http://www.openchrome.org AFAIK this broke between Saucy Alpha 1 and Saucy Alpha 2 but I could never find anything in the changelog to give me any clues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205643 Title: VIA P4M800 graphics broken in Lubuntu/Xubuntu Saucy Status in “xserver-xorg-video-openchrome” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Please bear with me and read all of this. Since I can't get a working display in Saucy with that graphics chip I need to use this method to file the initial bug report, but I can provide info using a chroot or replacing the "quiet splash" boot parameter with "text" which takes me to a tty interface. I hope using the tty interface provided by using the "text" boot parameter I can use "apport-collect" to collect the info needed from an installed Lubuntu 13.10 but I won't do so until asked by a dev in case some "switch" needs to be set to collect the appropriate info. I also want to say that I'm fully aware that graphics chip is not supported by Ubuntu/compiz itself, or even GNOME's mutter window manager, but I think it should still work with the openbox, metacity, and Xfwm window managers ...... at least I hope so :^) So onto what actually happens. When I try to boot either Lubuntu or Xubuntu Saucy Alpha 2, either the live image or an installed version, I just get a frozen progress bar. So it's just 5 frozen dots on the screen. If I try booting through the recovery mode or otherwise trying to "startx" or "'sudo service lightdm start' I just get a blank screen. I can see the backlight is working but that's all. This is the specific hardware: VIA C7 CPU @ 1500MHz VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 1GB DDR2 RAM I did take a pic of the live image boot process while dealing with an unrelated d-i bug during Lubuntu Alpha 2 testing process: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/145894508/P4M800_xfreeze.JPG Now I'm wondering what else to say ............... the same Saucy images and installs work with two other totally different sets of hardware. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves to help gather any needed info. Thanks in advance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/1205643/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
