VIA Unichrome onboard-graphics

[ph0]

hello,

I have a gericom notebook with VIA Unichrome onboard-graphics-chip. I looked around on the net and found an interesting project for unichrome graphics (http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php) which offers an ebuild for a especially patched xfree-4.4.0. I merged that one and it detects my chip in the right way as km400 and initialized it. but then it says that the V_BIOS checksum isn't correct and another one with the RAM (it's shared memory and as said onboard). I tried everything and played with the XF86Config file and so on, but nothing worked. The actual config is the one suggested by the ebuild-author.

has anyone an idea which thing I could change so that it works with my shared-memory card? I will somehow copy my XFree log if you think that could be helpful. I'm also willing to test any unstable modules or something if it promises direct rendering

thanks already,
ph0

[Raoul_Duke]

I have that chipset in my laptop and TBH i've not had much luck with any VIA drivers. I'm happy just using the VESA driver in the current xorg-x11.

But then i don't need 3d accel.
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[ph0]

VESA also worked in the old XFree
but I'd really like direct-rendering. seems like only the onboard cards of this type don't work with that module. the rest has direct-rendering perhaps there is another 'underground' module which works or the author of the ebuild can fix that for us I have posted already in the forum where he also posts.

perhaps anyone else has an idea

[polle]

maybe of some interest:

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=325#all

[ph0]

I jost wrote to the mailing list of this via xorg-module. he replied:

[Raoul_Duke]

Yeah, it was the VT restoration that made me go back to VESA. Hopefully it will improve soon.

Thanks for the heads up though
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