[gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg

[gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg

[Statux]

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Hello all.

I am building a system which has the Unichrome Pro IGP video chipset
(Via P4M800 Northbridge) and I cannot for the life of me get the via
driver for Xorg 7.x to work. In fact, all I really need (as this system
will be my mother's when I'm done with it) is a simple 2D display with
16bit color because she, most likely, will not be using anything
accellerated but if I could ever get that rolling, it wouldn't be bad.
But, first things first. I'm no stranger to X, etc. I've gotten several
computers flowing nicely with it but this is confusing me. Yes, I have
everything configured correctly in the kernel, everything seems to come
up and get detected, but outside of a basic 1, 2, 4, 8, whatever bit
display (which I think I might have gotten with the vga driver through a
test config with one of the config utilities) I've got nothing. My
mother's current system (which I set up, which is also not with me at
the moment) is running some 16bit svga 2D setup which I can't seem to
reproduce off the top of my head (She's running Xorg < 7.x, though).

Does anyone have a working config for this chipset or know of some
pointers which I obviously have not tried yet?

-Statux


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Re: [gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg

[Benno Schulenberg]

Statux wrote:
> I am building a system which has the Unichrome Pro IGP video
> chipset (Via P4M800 Northbridge) and I cannot for the life of me
> get the via driver for Xorg 7.x to work.

You mean x11-drivers/xf86-video-via-0.1.33.2 ?  It's far too old for 
the 800 chips.  And openchrome doesn't do regular releases (see 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147425) so if you want it 
working, you'll need to build from SVN.

http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code

> In fact, all I really 
> need (as this system will be my mother's when I'm done with it)
> is a simple 2D display with 16bit color because she, most likely,
> will not be using anything accellerated

Then simply use the vesa driver.  At depth 16 it should work 
perfectly.  3D acceleration will not really work on the 800 chips 
anyway: the Mesa stuff for the unichrome is unmaintained and there 
is a bug in the textures code that trips up the 800s.

Benno

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Re: [gentoo-user] Via UniChrome Pro and Xorg

[Statux]

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[snip]

> You mean x11-drivers/xf86-video-via-0.1.33.2 ?  It's far too old for 
> the 800 chips.  And openchrome doesn't do regular releases (see 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147425) so if you want it 
> working, you'll need to build from SVN.
> 

Well that explains that.

> http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code

[snip]

> Then simply use the vesa driver.  At depth 16 it should work 
> perfectly.  3D acceleration will not really work on the 800 chips 
> anyway: the Mesa stuff for the unichrome is unmaintained and there 
> is a bug in the textures code that trips up the 800s.
> 

I was avoiding use of the vesa driver for some reason but I'll give it a
try and see if I can get anywhere. Yeah, all my mother needs is a
straight 2D environment. I'm not big on on-board video/audio/networking
but for light use, it's ok. If she were to ever need something with more
juice, I'd get a seperate 3D card anyway.

Thanks.

> Benno
> 
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