Incidentally, for those fed-up with this issue, via has released a
proprietary driver on their site for Lucid now as of Aug 5 or thereabouts.
 It works just fine.  I want open source as much as the next guy, but my
preference is for something that works.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Eric Lange <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> Are you explicitly using a VX855 on CRT or HDMI?  If so, please do post
> your xorg.conf.  If not, is there *anyone* who has this working correctly
> on the VX855?  Can we get confirmation from any living soul that there is a
> way to make this work on CRT for a VX855?  I have not yet heard anyone
> explicitly say that this does indeed work for our hardware.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Ryan J Alder <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> > ... I am attaching a new xorg log and conf
>>
>> Is that your entire xorg.conf?  Judging by the log, it seems so.  You're
>> missing a lot of options.  You may want to look up some sample openchrome
>> xorg.conf files to work off of, like this one:
>>
>> http://www.docunext.com/wiki/My_openchrome_xorg.conf
>>
>> I'm not at home to send you mine, but I can later if you need one.  It
>> took
>> me 4 distributions, a lot of config playing and an svn update to get mine
>> to display right with hardware acceleration, but finally have it.
>>
>> For the console problem, does it properly display the bootloader and
>> beginning of the boot process?  If so, you may need to blacklist the viafb
>> module from loading.  I had to do that on mine.  As soon as udev would
>> start, the console would scramble.
>>
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