hp 2133, xorg and broken VTs

[Leonie Herzberg]

hi!
i've just got a hp 2133 laptop computer with a via chrome graphics card. now i tried to get gnuffy to run on it (which is some arch linux fork you probably don't know)

i tried both the vesa and the openchrome video driver which both had the "nice" effect of making my VTs unreadable after X has been started. which means, if i use the vesa driver, i get giant dancing pixel clouds instead of letters, and, if i use the openchrome driver, i get green squares over the whole display (no matter if X is still running, or if I zapped or exited) that only reboot can recover.

X itself shows a rather usual picture (except that the fluxbox task bar seems to be missing if i use the openchrome driver, i have not yet figured out why).
i basically used the xorg.conf i found on the gentoo wiki article about the hp2133 which is why i can't understand why it doesn't work. i adjusted some options that obviously didn't work on my system (threw errors). and, as you probably already assume, i have approximately no idea about what i am doing to my poor xorg.
i would be grateful for any help :)

i will include a pci -vvv excerpt concerning my video card and the xorg.conf in this mail, while i will attach the Xorg.0.log because it's too long. 


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3030
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 64 (500ns min)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 1: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Expansion ROM at fbff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [70] AGP version 3.0
		Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=7 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
		Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>


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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
#	RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "AudoAddDevices" "False"
	Option "AutoEnableDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "xtrap"
#	Load  "record"
	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "dbe"
#	Load  "dri"
	Load  "freetype"
#	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	ModeLine "1280x768" 77.37 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 794
EndSection

Section "Device"

#        Option     "AccelMethod" "EXA"		
        Option     "SWCursor"  "On"         	# [<bool>]
        Option     "ForcePanel" "On"        	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "openchrome"
	VendorName  "Unknown Vendor"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		   Viewport   0 0
		   Depth     1
        EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
	    	    Viewport   0 0
		    Depth     4
        EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		    Viewport   0 0
     		    Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
	  	     Viewport   0 0
	   	     Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		   Viewport   0 0
	  	      Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
	    Viewport   0 0
	    Depth     24
       EndSubSection
EndSection
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