Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 11/11/05, Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Still no luck. I tried compiling VIA Unichrome suppport in the kernel,
> but the kernel version of via_drv.o doesn't move out of /usr/src.
> xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 doesn't compile via_drv.o and my X is performing very
> badly!

I think we have a failure to communicate here....

The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel
driver.  It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding
the kernel.  It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
(along with all other X11 drivers).

I don't understand why you don't have this file.  The only case this
should be missing is if you have USE=minimal.  Could you please post
the output of "emerge -pv xorg-x11"?

Once you have this file, then you will need to update your xorg.conf
Device section and change the Driver option to "via".

The kernel has a DRM driver for via, that (if compiled as a module)
will be installed under /lib/modules as "via.ko".  To load that, you
will modify /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to add the line "via". 
However, again, this is only for DRI/DRM support, and will almost
certainly require using the X11 via driver, so let's worry about that
later!

-Richard

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