hey cuneytm,

martin has told me howto do so. have a look in the suite
https://issues.openthinclient.org/otc/browse/SUITE-230. if you don't like to
register, here's the story in short:

(o) the driver:
https://issues.openthinclient.org/otc/secure/attachment/11210/via_drv.so.
version: openchrome-0.2.903-svn586.

(o) in the otc manager, edit the settings of the desired thin client to have
the following additional kernel parameters: "union=/etc:/usr:/var" /wo the
dbl'quotes, and restart the thinclient. this will make the filesystem rw.

(o) scp (pw: foobar) the attached module to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ and overwrite the
old one. i have used netcat to do so, but that's a matter of taste...

 thinclient: # nc -lp 3333 > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so
workstation: # nc -n 1.2.3.4 3333 < via_drv.so

where 1.2.3.4 is the ip of the thinclient.

(o) kill/restart the xserver by hitting (<CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>)

you can see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that the new driver has loaded. the 
openchrome
driver -- both are openchromes -- do while loading some benchmark of the
video memory. at the very end of the log you should see some timings like:

Fulfilled via DRI at 20976640
(II) VIA(0): Benchmarking video copy. Less is better.
(--) VIA(0): Timed   libc YUV420 copy... 1813278. Throughput: 326.4 MiB/s.
(--) VIA(0): Timed kernel YUV420 copy... 1777349. Throughput: 333.0 MiB/s.
(--) VIA(0): Timed    SSE YUV420 copy... 1019839. Throughput: 580.4 MiB/s.
(--) VIA(0): Timed    MMX YUV420 copy... 1640572. Throughput: 360.8 MiB/s.
(--) VIA(0): Ditch 3DNow! YUV420 copy... Not supported by CPU.
(--) VIA(0): Timed   MMX2 YUV420 copy... 1082100. Throughput: 547.0 MiB/s.
Freed 20976640 (pool 2)
(--) VIA(0): Using SSE YUV42X copy for video.
(II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Registering viaXvMC.
(II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.
(WW) VIA(0): Option "PasswordFile" is not used
(II) VIA(0): - Done

i have noticed no difference, +/- a few mb/s though...

-jolt (*yawn* off to work)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cuneytm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] [Openthinclient-user] Lame
Openchromedriver


>
> hi jolt,
>
> As I didnt hear from Martin for sometime, it should be holiday season in
> his
> hometown , can you please share with me how did you manage to install the
> new shiny openchrome drivers?
>
> I have VIA unichrome pro chipset too and would love to update at the
> earliest chance.
>
> Would you be kind enough to share how to do get and install the driver?
>
> All the best!
>
>
> jolteroli wrote:
>>
>> hi ppl,
>>
>> guess the "Lame Openchrome driver" issue seems to be solved. it was the
>> fact, that the thinclient in question (neoware e140) defaults to use 64MB
>> of
>> shared memory for the unichrome graphics chipset. that's much, because
>> the
>> model was equipped by 256MB only. since we haven't had any issue with
>> ThinStation, i simply didn't look in the bios. after bothering martin
>> (sorry
>> again martin!) and some self tests, the penny has dropped!
>>
>> with 16MB shared, the neoware runs fine too and the OS owns 48MB memory
>> more. what a flash of a genius, ain't it? :P now the new as well as the
>> old
>> driver is running smooth.
>>
>> -jolt
>>
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