[Openchrome-users] VN800 Laptop Support

Sun May 28 05:56:37 PDT 2006

Hi,

I already created a trac ticket for this issue:

http://openchrome.org/trac/ticket/40

If I can help debugging the problem, please leave a short notice.

Thanks

Aaron Moses schrieb:
> HI,
>
> I have a gateway MX3220b with a VN800. Ive got the driver somewhat 
> working under Ubuntu Dapper Drake using the svn drivers and a cvs copy 
> of drm. The driver instillation was similar to Martin's, but I used 
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/ ( autogen.sh automatically runs 
> ./configure so you don't need this step) to get the modules in the 
> right path for Ubuntu (means you don't need to add 'ModulePath 
> "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"' to the xorg.conf file) .
>
> once this is done you can check out and compile drm as detailed on the 
> wiki 
> http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code 
> <http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code>
> (follow the instructions for Xorg 7.0. or later - Direct Rendering 
> Manager)
>
> To get this to work for the vn800 you will have to add the line:-
>
> 0x1106 0x3344 0 "VIA P4VM800PRO"
>
> to the [viadrv] section of the files shared-core/drm_pciids.txt and 
> shared/drm_pciids.txt (in the drm source code) so that it recognises 
> the chip.
> (Do this before making the kernel modules)
>
> also for Ubuntu you should use ./configure --prefix=/usr/ instead of 
> ./configure so that everything can be found properly.
>
> After all this you should have a somewhat working driver. Opengl works 
> for me but xv just results in a coloured section on the screen where 
> the video should be (you can use opengl video rendering instead, but I 
> find its not powerful enough for DVDs). Also I find I cant change 
> resolutions without rebooting as the screen gets messed up (looks like 
> its not figuring out where the end of each horizontal line of the 
> image is).
>
> I've spoken with Ivor about this and he got me to try some things with 
> the overlay and xvtest card, but the most we managed to achieve was 
> changing the colour of the overlay section where the video should be.
>
> The procedure I described above should be similar for fedora core 5, 
> if you manage to get it working for a distro other than ubuntu Id be 
> interested in hearing your outcome!
>
> Also with the Gateway laptop Network Manager is no longer playing nice 
> with the built in wifi card (broardcom), it used to work perfectly but 
> since a recent update its stopped. I have to manually bring it up and 
> down. I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with this.
>
> I hope some of this was at least vaguely useful.
>
> Aaron
>
>
>     Hi Bill,
>     I use Ubuntu Dapper (current Ubuntu development release, it will get
>     stable at 1st June).
>
>     The procedure was like that:
>
>     sudo apt-get install  subversion build-essential automake1.9 libtool
>     pkg-config xserver-xorg-dev libxvmc-dev x11proto-gl-dev
>     libglu1-mesa-dev
>     mkdir openchrome
>     cd openchrome
>     svn co http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk
>     cd trunk
>     ./autogen.sh
>     ./configure
>     make
>     sudo make install
>
>     Then I added
>
>     ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>     ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>
>     to my "Files" section in my xorg.conf and changed Driver in the
>     Section
>     "Device" to via.
>
>     Please note that xv support with VN800 is currently broken, I already
>     opened a trac ticket.
>
>     Martin
>
>     spambot schrieb:
>     > Hi Martin
>     >
>     > That's great!!
>     >
>     > Which Linux Distribution did you use? And if you don't mind what
>     was the
>     > procedure, just install the X RPMs and then select the VIA
>     driver in the X
>     > Windows "Display" configuration applet?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Bill.
>     >
>     >
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: Martin Juergens [mailto: martin at gamesplace.info
>     <mailto:martin at gamesplace.info>]
>     > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:52 PM
>     > To: openchrome-users at openchrome.org
>     <mailto:openchrome-users at openchrome.org>
>     > Cc: spambot
>     > Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] VN800 Laptop Support
>     >
>     > Hi spambot,
>     > I have a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with a VN800 chipset, too and I
>     was able to
>     > use the openchrome drivers without any problems. If you want, I
>     can give you
>     > my compiled Xorg 7 via driver.
>     >
>     > Martin
>     >
>     > spambot schrieb:
>     >
>     >> Hi Team,
>     >>
>     >> I have a Gateway MX3210 laptop with VIA Unichrome VN800
>     Graphics and a
>     >> 1280x768 display.
>     >>
>     >> I've installed Fedora Core 5 and Centos V4.3. On both i tried
>     getting
>     >> the OpenChrome drivers to work, but i did not have any luck.
>     >>
>     >> For Centos V4.3, i installed the Xwindows RPMS, rebooted the
>     computer,
>     >> selected the VIA driver in X-Windows, and then tried to log
>     out. The
>     >> screen went black and that was the end of that. Is the VN800
>     and a LCD
>     >> laptop panel a supported configuration?
>     >>
>     >> Also what is the process for customizing the resolution list in the
>     >> Gnome Desktop -> Display utility to add the 1280x768, resolution?
>     >>
>     >> Any help will be appreciated!
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >>
>     >> Bill G.
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