[Openchrome-users] Fwd: Re: Hello (VN800, XORG 6.9.0, SUSE 10.0)

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Friday 21 April 2006 09:53, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 08:39, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> > On Friday 21 April 2006 00:28, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> > > First, I have impression that switching to consoles (ctrl+alt+f1..f6)
> > > is lot slower than I was using vesafb (from 1sec before to 10sec now).
> >
> > There used to be a vt switching speed problem. Can you confirm you're
> > using the current svn code?
>
> Confirmed (=180).
>
ok that'll need more investigation then.

> > > Second, when I switch to console, in the 10sec intermezzo, there is
> > > "garbage" screen. Looks like X window that I was using, but in 16
> > > colors and of lot lower resolution.
> > >
> > > Also, I have problem with DRI.
> > >
> > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> > > (WW) VIA(0): [XvMC] Cannot use XvMC without DRI!
> >
> > Have you built and have loaded the via drm kernel module.
>
> Well, I have built it as stated in doc's at openchrome and docs at drm site
> (there was problem with libdrm installation).  I have now:
> dmesg | grep drm:
>
> drm: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
>
ok right. you also need the via_drm module loading... 
you'll need to add your device id into the drm_pciids.txt file in the via 
section:-

0x1106 0x3344 0 "VIA P4VM800PRO"

Cheers,

-- 
Ivor Hewitt.