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

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

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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