[gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[Marco Calviani]

Hi list,
   i would like to buy a motherboard which uses a K8M800 chipset. Does
Xorg drivers offers 2D/3D acceleration for this card? Anyone has
experience with it using gentoo?

Best regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[Daniel da Veiga]

I had one of this Via cards, different than yours, it was a KM400, but
they're all Unychrome family (still have it onboard, only disabled),
and it was a hell of a time getting it to work, in fact, I had to get
an unstable Xorg, compile some stuff myself and getting a new opengl
driver to copy over the old one.

Of course, now things are better, the Xorg version now unmasked if I'm
not mistaken offers support for this card, and you should have less
problems making it work, I can tell you it works, it has direct
rendering and I was able to configure it with some work and lots of
search (specially hard because I only had this machine and all search
was done using links in text mode).

Sincerely, on of the best things I've done was getting my NVidia video
card, and NForce chipset is way better than VIA, but that's IMHO,
invest more money and get a better mobo.

On 2/14/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to buy a motherboard which uses a K8M800 chipset. Does
> Xorg drivers offers 2D/3D acceleration for this card? Anyone has
> experience with it using gentoo?
>
> Best regards,
> MC
>
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>
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Daniel,
   thanks for sharing your experience. The only "problem" in getting
an Nvidia or ATI video card is that they rely on closed source
proprietary drivers (apart for "older" ATI card for which the xorg
radeon drivers works well); on the contrary i've seen that the
unichrome driver became open source, but however googling around i've
seen many people getting into trouble for make it working....

thanks again,
MC

2006/2/14, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>:
> I had one of this Via cards, different than yours, it was a KM400, but
> they're all Unychrome family (still have it onboard, only disabled),
> and it was a hell of a time getting it to work, in fact, I had to get
> an unstable Xorg, compile some stuff myself and getting a new opengl
> driver to copy over the old one.
>
> Of course, now things are better, the Xorg version now unmasked if I'm
> not mistaken offers support for this card, and you should have less
> problems making it work, I can tell you it works, it has direct
> rendering and I was able to configure it with some work and lots of
> search (specially hard because I only had this machine and all search
> was done using links in text mode).
>
> Sincerely, on of the best things I've done was getting my NVidia video
> card, and NForce chipset is way better than VIA, but that's IMHO,
> invest more money and get a better mobo.
>
> On 2/14/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >    i would like to buy a motherboard which uses a K8M800 chipset. Does
> > Xorg drivers offers 2D/3D acceleration for this card? Anyone has
> > experience with it using gentoo?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > MC
> >
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> >
>
>
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> Daniel da Veiga
> Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[Benno Schulenberg]

Marco Calviani wrote:
> the unichrome driver became open source, but however
> googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for
> make it working....

Not many.  It's the ones with troubles that are the loudest.  :)

Getting it to work used to be a bit complicated, as you have X and 
Mesa and drm and agp and the kernel itself, and it all has to fit 
precisely together.  Many get it working, however.  But it may be 
better to ask your question on the openchrome mailing list.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

[Marco Calviani]

Thanks Benno!

2006/2/14, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>:
> Marco Calviani wrote:
> > the unichrome driver became open source, but however
> > googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for
> > make it working....
>
> Not many.  It's the ones with troubles that are the loudest.  :)
>
> Getting it to work used to be a bit complicated, as you have X and
> Mesa and drm and agp and the kernel itself, and it all has to fit
> precisely together.  Many get it working, however.  But it may be
> better to ask your question on the openchrome mailing list.
>
> Benno
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