[Openchrome-users] Some general questions

[Bilderbeek, Manuel]

Hi,

I have some general questions about the via/unichrome drivers in Xorg.
As I said before, I'm using a Via Epia with a CLE266 chipset, and I'm
not interested in xv, only in 2D hardware acceleration and also in
OpenGL acceleration. An 800x600x16bpp mode is what I intend to use.

1) what is supported in the driver in Xorg 6.8.2? I saw there is a via
driver and also the unichrome_dri stuff is in it.

2) how is the 2D and 3D performance of the driver in Xorg 6.8.2,
compared to 6.9 and the current SVN?

3) what is the minimum amount of video RAM to set up in the BIOS, needed
for the above mentioned purposes? (I guess it's more for OpenGL than for
only 2D, but how much? Both for Xorg 6.8.2 and 6.9, if there's a
difference.)

4) in Xorg 6.8.2 I found both a unichrome_dri.so and a via_dri.so.
What's the difference and how do I specify which one to use, if
necessary? AFAIK I can only set the driver to 'via' in the Xorg.conf and
via_drv determines which dri module to load.

As you may have noticed, I'm stuck with Xorg 6.8.2 for now and I'm
trying to grok what this means for me. Plus some additional things I'm
not understanding yet :)

Thanks for now!

--
Kind regards,

Manuel Bilderbeek

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