Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Installing OpenChrome driver for suitable VIA graphic cards

0. Description
Detecting graphic card chipset and (if VIA) installing OpenChrome driver.



Note: Till today (22 Oct 2008) the supported VIA chipsets are (for a complete list see http://www.openchrome.org):
CLE266
KM400/KN400/KM400A/P4M800
CN400/PM800/PN800/PM880
K8M800
CN700/VM800/P4M800Pro
CX700
P4M890
K8M890
P4M900/VN896

1. Detecting graphic card chipset

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP [VIA P4M890 Chipset] (rev 01)
[P4M890 is suitable with OpenChrome.]


2. Installing driver
# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

3. Configuration
[Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set:]
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Boardname "openchrome"
 # Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
 Driver "openchrome"
 Screen 0
EndSection

Posted by micharg at 9:31 AM
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