[Openchrome-users] New card. How to test?

[Xavier Bachelot]

Radu Cristescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a very new VIA Unichrome card with PCI ID 1106:3157. The VIA guys 
> say that the OpenChrome drivers should work with it and treat the 
> chipset as a CN400. I tried adding the PCI ID on my own to the drivers 
> from SVN revision 195 (current HEAD), in the unichrome/via_id.c file, 
> but that didn't work. Actually, X seem to not probe the card at all (I 
> added a debug statement there so I see in the X logs if it passes 
> through the search function, and it didn't) and it said "no screens 
> found", but even so it displayed a cursor. The cursor remained on screen 
> after killing X, and starting X a second time locks around the place 
> where it scans the PCI bus.
> 
> The PCI ID may not be the final one, so it may be wrong to add it to SVN 
> just yet. Is there a way for me to make the drivers find the video card 
> so I at least know if they work or not?
> 
It will take a little more than adding the subsystem pci id has the 
system pci id is not yet supported, and thus the card not probed at all. 
Adding support for this new chipset might not be that difficult, but 
it'll take a little more time ;-)

Regards,

Xavier