A long long time ago, there used to be an old driver for VIA cards in the package xserver-xorg-video-via but that driver was really bad so the OpenChrome project was started to replace it sort of. There is no driver at all in the xserver-xorg-video-via package... that package is just used to make sure that old users are transitioned from the -via driver to the -openchrome driver when upgrading.
You can tell which driver you are using by looking at the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log (which usually contains both the driver name and a version number but note that if you apply a patch it will still show the same version number of course unless the patch actually changed the version number which is very rarely the case). If the -openchrome driver is in use you will see many lines prefixed with "CHROME(0): " in this log file, and for example if the vesa driver is used you will see many lines prefixed with "VESA(0):" or something like that. I have no idea when the new wireless driver will ship but I assume it's a kernel driver so you should ask the Ubuntu kernel team about it. If the driver update is necessary to fix the bug then I suggest you open a bug against the kernel (package "linux") because otherwise there is a good chance that the kernel team will not see this bug at all. -- [HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
