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mpsii
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 Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject: VIA Open Source Unichrome |
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They have open-sourced the unichrome drivers. Anyone wanna give a go at an ebuild (since I am unable to at the moment)?
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&Type=4
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Crim
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: Any success? |
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| I managed to get the X component of the driver compiled sucessfully after manually emerging xorg 6.7, but there are very noticeable root window artifacts under DVI and screen corruption issues, probably related to the lack of properly built drm support / loaded modules. Anyone care to comment? Looks good under vga though. |
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Crim
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: Just an update |
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Replying to myself because I got farther, following the Via instructions word for word including using a vanilla xorg6.7 build (not the gentoo ebuild) and a 2.6.5 kernel for the dri modules I got the driver built and it works in more cases now, but still not perfectly.
Specifically the best DVI resolution I can get is 1280x1024x16bit, 1600x1200 at any bit depth causes all kinds of strange palette issues under DVI (although it looks perfect under VGA). Anyone have any idea why that may be? |
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mpsii
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the update. This, so far, has been my only frustration with the Epia boards.
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lbrtuk
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see what the point in installing these drivers is. http://unichrome.sourceforge.net has had open unichrome drivers for some time, and they don't rely on a wierd proprietary mpeg library or special forked versions of mplayer and xine. |
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ulises
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: Drivers VIA in Kernel 2.6? |
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| When the drivers for the VIA Unichrome Graphics will be a module of the kernel 2.6?? |
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Crim
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:10 am Post subject: The point |
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| Well, the point is that the Unichrome drivers lack support for the latest Unichrome hardware from via, including the TDMS chips used for DVI on a lot of the new embedded devices. So if you are interested in running Linux on them the Via drivers are the only way to go. |
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lbrtuk
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: The point |
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| Crim wrote: | | Well, the point is that the Unichrome drivers lack support for the latest Unichrome hardware from via, including the TDMS chips used for DVI on a lot of the new embedded devices. So if you are interested in running Linux on them the Via drivers are the only way to go. |
I didn't realise the unichrome range was being so significantly updated. |
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