<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all, I have been running Arch Linux on a VIA EPIA EX10000EG with success using version openchrome 0.2.906, until the upgrade of openchrome to 0.3.0. Since then my screen just comes up blank black. Trying to get it running, I broke the system and had to do a re-install. Although, sticking to 0.2.906 would have been the solution... I have now installed 0.3.1 and still no luck. The box is booting from the network using NFS and pxelinux. That works great (much better and stable than I expected!) and gets me into console mode ok, after setting some viafb properties, on both the DVI as well as the TV (S-Video) output. The experiments I have done are as follows: First I needed to get viafb properly running, so I created the following options.conf in my /etc/modprobe.d. directory: <code>options viafb viafb_active_dev=DVI+LCD viafb_display_hardware_layout=2 viafb_platform_epia_dvi=1 viafb_dvi_port=DVP1 viafb_lcd_panel_id=9 viafb_mode=1024x768 viafb_refresh=70</code> This seems to help the viafb to give me a working console in 1024x768 resolution on the DVI output. So far so good... The drm module is inserted into the kernel at boot. For this I included the following lines in my mkinitcpio.conf: <code> </code><code>...</code><code> </code><code>MODULES="nfsv3 via_agp drm"</code><code> </code><code>...</code><code> </code><code>FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/options.conf"</code> ... But, starting up lxdm (X), there is no graphical output on the DVI port, when I have viafb inserted in the kernel. The screen goes to black with a static console cursor in the top left hand corner. Using Ctrl-Alt-F1 I can get to the console, just fine. I found that leaving out viafb (blacklist it) from the kernel, I start getting some output on the DVI port. But the video does not properly sync. I get horizontally and vertically moving garbled lines floating across my 1920x1080 screen... The system does not freeze. I can still login using ssh and even, knowing the keystrokes by hart, I can even login to X (LXDM). This is my 10-monitor.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: <code>Section "Monitor"</code><code> </code><code> Identifier "Monitor0"</code><code> </code><code># HorizSync 30 - 50</code><code> </code><code># VertRefresh 50.0 - 50.0</code><code> </code><code>EndSection</code><code> </code><code> </code><code>Section "Device"</code><code> </code><code> Identifier "Device0"</code><code> </code><code> Driver "openchrome"</code><code> </code><code> Option "ActiveDevice" "DFP"</code><code> </code><code># Option "TVType" "PAL"</code><code> </code><code># Option "TVOutput" "S-Video"</code><code> </code><code>EndSection</code><code> </code><code> </code><code>Section "Screen"</code><code> </code><code> Identifier "Screen0"</code><code> </code><code> Device "Device0"</code><code> </code><code> Monitor "Monitor0"</code><code> </code><code> DefaultDepth 32</code><code> </code><code> SubSection "Display"</code><code> </code><code> Viewport 0 0</code><code> </code><code># Modes "720x576" "720x576Noscale"</code><code> </code><code> Modes "1920x1080"</code><code> </code><code># Virtual 3200 1080</code><code> </code><code># Modes "640x480"</code><code> </code><code># Modes "1024x768"</code><code> </code><code> EndSubSection</code><code> </code><code>EndSection</code> So I figured I should do some further checks, as indicated at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/Troubleshooting">http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/Troubleshooting</a> Here we go: <code># dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm</code><code> </code><code>[ 2.473998] Linux agpgart interface v0.103</code><code> </code><code>[ 2.475573] agpgart: Detected VIA CX700 chipset</code><code> </code><code>[ 2.485747] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000</code><code> </code><code>[ 2.499803] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810</code><code> </code><code> </code><code># grep openchrome /var/log/Xorg.0.log</code><code> </code><code>[ 431.974] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"</code><code> </code><code>[ 431.977] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so</code><code> </code><code>[ 431.978] (II) Module openchrome: vendor=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://openchrome.org/">"http://openchrome.org/"</a></code><code> </code><code>[ 431.985] (!!) For support, please refer to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openchrome.org/">http://www.openchrome.org/</a>.</code><code> </code><code>[ 431.985] (!!) (openchrome 0.3.1 release)</code><code> </code><code> </code><code># grep rendering /var/log/Xorg.0.log</code><code> </code><code> </code><code># grep "(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.707] (EE) CHROME(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:01:00.0: No such file or directory</code><code> </code> Aha! DRM issue? <code># lsmod | grep drm</code><code> </code><code>drm 180042 0 </code><code> </code><code>i2c_core 16943 2 drm,i2c_viapro</code><code> </code><code>agpgart 21935 2 drm,via_agp</code><code> </code><code> </code><code># modinfo drm</code><code> </code><code>filename: /lib/modules/3.6.6-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko.gz</code><code> </code><code>license: GPL and additional rights</code><code> </code><code>description: DRM shared core routines</code><code> </code><code>author: Gareth Hughes, Leif Delgass, José Fonseca, Jon Smirl</code><code> </code><code>depends: agpgart,i2c-core</code><code> </code><code>intree: Y</code><code> </code><code>vermagic: 3.6.6-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 686 </code><code> </code><code>parm: edid_fixup:Minimum number of valid EDID header bytes (0-8, default 6) (int)</code><code> </code><code>parm: debug:Enable debug output (int)</code><code> </code><code>parm: vblankoffdelay:Delay until vblank irq auto-disable [msecs] (int)</code><code> </code><code>parm: timestamp_precision_usec:Max. error on timestamps [usecs] (int)</code><code> </code> Loaded ok... <code># lspci | grep 01:00.0</code><code> </code><code>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700/VX700 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 03)</code><code> </code> Card is there... Are there any warnings? <code># grep "(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.457] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.458] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.458] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.471] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.473] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.479] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)</code><code> </code><code>[ 286.735] (WW) CHROME(0): Manufacturer plainly copied main PCI IDs to subsystem/card IDs.</code><code> </code><code>[ 287.922] (WW) CHROME(0): [XvMC] XvMC is not supported on this chipset.</code><code> </code> Ok. So: some fonts missing, acpid not operational, a lazy manufacturer and XvMC not supported. Some other things I tested: Setting <code>VBEModes</code> to "true" sigfaults X... When I set <code>Option "ActiveDevice" "TV"</code>, X no longer checks if there is anything connected to DP-1 and tells me: <code>... [ 1386.156] (--) CHROME(0): Detected VIA Technologies VT1625 TV Encoder</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.156] (II) CHROME(0): ViaVT162xInit</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.157] (II) CHROME(0): Output TV-1 has no monitor section</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.157] (II) CHROME(0): VT162xSave</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.257] (II) CHROME(0): I2C device "I2C bus 1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.261] (II) CHROME(0): ViaDisplayDisableCRT</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.261] (II) CHROME(0): EDID for output VGA-1</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.261] (II) CHROME(0): VT1625DACSense</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.265] (--) CHROME(0): VT1625: Nothing connected.</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.265] (II) CHROME(0): EDID for output TV-1</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.265] (II) CHROME(0): Output VGA-1 disconnected</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.265] (II) CHROME(0): Output TV-1 disconnected</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.265] (WW) CHROME(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.266] (II) CHROME(0): Output VGA-1 disconnected</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.266] (II) CHROME(0): Output TV-1 disconnected</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.266] (WW) CHROME(0): Unable to find connected outputs - setting 1024x768 initial framebuffer</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.266] (II) CHROME(0): Using default gamma of (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) unless otherwise stated.</code><code> </code><code>[ 1386.266] (==) CHROME(0): DPI set to (96, 96)</code> ... But both the DVI and the TV are connected! I am out of ideas now after having tried many things... Maybe you can spot an issue... Thanks for any further suggestions. Willem </body> </html>