On Jan 16, 2008 4:08 PM, Xavier Bachelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. Dale Gonzalez wrote: > > Add me to the list of folks having problems with the P4M900 chipset on > > it. Before I bother everyone with the details of my issue(s), I have > > three quick questions. > > > > 1) Can someone please confirm the correct location to pull the source > > from? The openchrome wiki says that the P4M900 chipset support is on > > the experimental branch but I've seen in a couple of posts comments to > > the effect of "Don't use the experimental branch unless you're asked > > to do so". > > > All chipsets are supported in trunk and in the releases. > http://www.openchrome.org/releases > I've corrected the wiki pages to not mention experimental branch anymore. > > For completeness, currently experimental adds libpciaccess support, this > is not needed for most people. Randr contains some hardware cursor > improvements and new code for laptop panel support (P4M900 only for now). > None of these branches are for public consumption. Be prepared to get > your hands dirty if you use them. > > > 2) Is patching the kernel to support DRM and AGP GART necessary to get > > the driver working at all or can it be done after a successful > > build/install of openchrome. > > > P4M900 has been recently added in drm tree, but that has not been pushed > to kernel yet. AGP support for P4M900 is fixed in kernel 2.6.23 and later. > > > 3) Will the Ubuntu Gutsy xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package work or > > is a pull from source + compile necessary to support this chip. > > > No idea what Ubuntu ships. If they are not shipping the latest release, > then please fill a bug in their bugtracker. > > Regards, > Xavier > >
Thanks Xavier. I stayed away from the releases because the file started with xf86 and I assumed these were the XFree86 versions as opposed to xorg ones. Stupid I guess but oh well. I'll grab the xf86 archive and start again compiling it. (Then I'll probably still be screwed and posting about my diagonal white lines across a heavily distorted display but we'll see) _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
