[Openchrome-users] P4M800CE being detected as VM800

[Chad]

On 8/30/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm running OpenChrome via drivers from today, and DRM checked out
> > from today as well, all following the instructions on the wiki (and
> > using svn/cvs as necessary).
> >
> > A bit of background:
> > I had a working [Gentoo] system and decided to break it :(  I was
> > upgrading a few major packages (GCC to 4.1.1, Xorg to 7.1) and decided
> > I should also include updates to Via, MythTV and Mplayer.  And now I
> > have a slightly unusable system.  XvMC isn't actually working in
> > mythtv, and I believe it is due to X incorrectly identifying my
> > chipset.  MythTV version is SVN (it's on a code freeze and I figured
> > I'd help out with testing the almost finished code for any bugs) from
> > today, I'm calling it 0.20 even though it's not quite there just
> > yet...
> >
> > Any help on getting my system back to normal would be great.  I'm
> > attaching the verbose output from lspci and the Xorg.0.log (both
> > gzipped) and hopefully those will help.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > -Chad
>
> I'm no further on this than before, does anyone have some insight as
> to what my problem may be?  If it seems I'm mixing some bad versions
> of any certain applications I'm up for
> re-configuring/install/upgrading/downloading just about any version of
> any application, I'm just not sure which one do that on.
>
> Any thoughts at all are appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Chad

I've got an FX5200 just sitting around, I'll drop that in the machine
and use it instead of the Via chipset for now.  I'm doing some
remodeling for the entertainment room and can't hold off any longer :)
 If anyone has any ideas, I'll be able to do testing etc. later on
this week.  It may be that I'm not describing my hardware well enough:
It's a Biostar P4M80-4 with just a VGA output (no TV, no DVI, no...
anything else) and a P4M800CE chipset in it.  XvMC is initializing
according to the Xorg.0.log file originally attached, but it appears
to not be working correctly as it's incorrectly identifying my chipset
as a VM800.  512MB of RAM, no hard drive, nothing in the PCI slots,
and a DVD burner.  Oh yeah, a Celeron D running at it's stock speed of
2.13Ghz.

Thanks!

-Chad