[Openchrome-users] VN800 Laptop Support

Sun May 28 18:42:57 PDT 2006

HI Aaron,

I followed your advice. The first time no luck, but the second time i edited
the xorg.conf file in the Section "Screen" area and added the resolution i
wanted to the SubSection "Display" under Modes and then just logged out and
in, and voila - it works. So i wont mess with the Gnome Display Applet - for
some reason that seems to messup the xorg.conf file. 

I'd like to thank everyone for helping out with this, your efforts on this
driver are greatly appreciated, as was your support. Im just happy to be
able to use my development tools etc on this laptop, and have the laptop's
display working  to its best abilities without Windows! 

Regarding Centos, i  sounds like Ubuntu does have significantly more
developer support, but i use Centos as its the only linux my datacenter
hosting provider supports on our dedicated box.

Thanks All!!

  _____  

From: Aaron Moses [mailto:zebardy at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:00 PM
To: spambot; openchrome-users at openchrome.org
Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] VN800 Laptop Support

Hi,

If youv'e got gnome installed you can use the tool in gnome-control-center
to switch between resolutions, tho it might mess up when you apply it just
acept it as it will sort itself out as soon as you reboot. If 1280x768 does
not show as one of the resolution options you will have to add the mode to
your xorg.conf file. Let me know how the driver under centos works for you.
Much tho I like ubuntu Id rather be able to watch dvds! Also if you dont
have gnome installed or have any other problems le m eknow too and Ill try
to help. 

Aaron

On 5/28/06, spambot <spambot at deepercalling.com> wrote: 

Hi Team,

Thanks for all your help!

I went back and did an install of the CENTOS 4.3 binaries provided. After
overcoming some dependancy issues (nedit wanted the x11 devel libraries), i
was able to get the laptop to startup a gui display with the S3 Unichrome
driver in Xwindows - which was fantastic.

My last question - how do i get the custom resolution of 1280x768 which is
what my laptop provides. Id be happy to fudge it at 1280x800 and just put up
with the bottom 30 pixels missing if thats an option too.

Thanks,

Bill.

  _____  

From: openchrome-users-bounces at openchrome.org
[mailto:openchrome-users-bounces at openchrome.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Moses
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:34 AM

To: openchrome-users at openchrome.org

Subject: Re: [Openchrome-users] VN800 Laptop Support

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+sourc
e+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:  <mailto:martin at gamesplace.info>
martin at gamesplace.info]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: 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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