On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Xavier Bachelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gurgel2 wrote: >> Recommendation for vx800 drivers Im wondering what drivers i should >> use for my epia n700, vx800 based, board under ubuntu? Are the >> openchrome drivers far from stable? Have anyone tried the unichrome >> driver supplied by via(?). Which is best and which one will have >> support for the hardware based video accelleration? >> > openchrome doesn't have support for VX800 yet. It shouldn't be too far > in the future though (say 1 or 2 months). > The "open" VIA driver from linux.via.com.tw will never have mpeg > acceleration, the "closed" VIA driver from viaarena.com will or does, > but it needs a modified and probably outdated (read unsecure) xinelib or > mplayer running with root privileges. > > Regards, > Xavier >
I just finished up the XAA 2d support for the VX800 chipset. EXA works as well but has some font rendering problems. Video acceleration is on its way. I will try and get some testing done and my code checked in tomorrow. Jon _______________________________________________ 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
