[Openchrome-users] PM800 information needed

[Thomas Hellström]

Jon Nettleton wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:27 +0100, Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
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>>Jon Nettleton wrote:
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>>>We are working on debugging XV on the K8M890 chipset, which is very
>>>similar to PM800 chipset.  I am looking to find out if there are PM800
>>>owners out there running XV successfully using the latest  svn repo.  
>>>
>>>Any info would be helpful.
>>>
>>>Jon
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>>Jon,
>>The PM800 is identical to the CN400 and these are the only one's having 
>>a special version of the video engine.
>>My first guess would be to assume that the K8M890 has a video engine 
>>identical to the other unichrome pros. (Unichrome pro group B)
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>>/Thomas
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>Unfortunately that appears to not be the case.  According to VIA's
>opensource driver it appears the VT3336 is more like the VT3259 and
>share's an overlay codebase.  Not making any special cases for the
>VT3336 in the openchrome driver causes a hard-lock when using XV.  Using
>the proOffset in some places we have stopped the hard lockup, but are
>unable to get video displayed.
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>Jon
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Oh, allright. I wonder why the CN700 and friends got the other engine.

Nice, though that they keep on using the newer one. It has a lot of nice 
stuff in it
which would be nice to support someday.

/Thomas