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