I've recently bought a a VIA K8M890-based motherboard. This chip set has onboard VGA, but it's not supported by X.org or XFree86 (well, the vesa driver recognizes it, but that's not saying much). On the other hand, VIA has X.org drivers for it in source form, which for some reason X.org has not incorporated into the distribution. So it makes sense to port them.
Problem: how do I do that? The most obvious approach is to extract x11-servers/xorg-server and replace the via driver with the VIA code. But that sounds tacky. My understanding of the Ports Collection is not really up to this task. If somebody wants to take over the project, feel free. Otherwise I'd be grateful for some hand-holding. The source tarball is at http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/k8m800_890-p4m890xf41068-kernel-src_20060707.tgz (and yes, though the name suggests that the drivers are for XFree86, the accompanying documentation (src/ReleaseNotes.txt) talks of X.org). There's also another, less powerful package at http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/k8m890xf40069-kernel-src_20060620.tgz. See also http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=25&CatID=2580&SubCatID=164 for some minimal documentation. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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