[Openchrome-users] via k8m890 very slow with vesa

[Thomas Hellström]

bob davis wrote:

> Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
>
>> bob davis wrote:
>>
>>> Jon Nettleton wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:02 -0500, bob davis wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> I have the following hardware:
>>>>> via k8m890ce
>>>>> averatec av4145-eh1
>>>>> lshw reports:
>>>>>     product: 2200 Series
>>>>>     vendor: Averatec
>>>>>
>>>>> Software:
>>>>> ubuntu edgy 6.10
>>>>> xorg 7.1.1
>>>>> vesa 1.2.0
>>>>>
>>>>> What I have already done:
>>>>> 1. I have been to openchrome.org and compiled and installed the 
>>>>> branch vt3336_branch.
>>>>> The driver comes up and is reasonably fast but it leaves missdraws 
>>>>> all over the screen. (call them birdies?)
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> If you have time I would love to debug this problem with you.  I am 
>>>> the
>>>> developer that started work on support for this chipset.  
>>>> Unfortunately
>>>> my tester is too busy to work with me, so the branch has been 
>>>> stagnant.
>>>>
>>>> The first thing to check with this driver is to set this for the 
>>>> device.
>>>>
>>>> Option "HWCursor" false
>>>>
>>>> This might help with the graphical corruption.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jon
>>>
>>> I would love to get this driver to work. I am a pretty good C++ 
>>> programmer. I mostly program on win32 so I am a little rusty with 
>>> debuggers etc. on linux. I think the last debugger I used on unix 
>>> was adb on aix.
>>>
>>> I added the
>>> Option "HWCursor" "false"
>>> to my xorg.conf and it didnt seem to make any difference.
>>>
>>> The problems I am getting:
>>> 1. As I type this msg into thunderbird when I enter a new line the 
>>> line I just entered disappears when the screen scrolls one line. It 
>>> then reappears after I type some characters on the new line.
>>> 2. In gnome terminal a half line worth of image is missing at the 
>>> top of the text window.
>>> 3. If I scroll firefox a line at a time various lines get messed up. 
>>> If I scroll it a screen at a time the screen is cleared up.
>>> 4. When I shutdown X the computer locks up and I have to power off 
>>> to recover.
>>>
>>> bob
>>> bob
>>>
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>>>
>> Jon, and Bob.
>> It would be great if you could get this chipset up running.
>> Just to let you both know, the 3D engine is completely different 
>> compared to the other unichromes. I've tried to request docs from 
>> VIA, but nothing so far.
>>
>> This means that we probably cannot get EXA composite working nor can 
>> we get accelerated OpenGL to work.
>>
>> /Thomas
>>
>>
>
> Is the driver from via any help? I have 2 different versions on my 
> computer.
>
> http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/k8m890xf40069-kernel-src_20060620.tgz
> This driver package provides the kernel source code for the Chrome9 
> K8M890 display driver. Follow the "VIA S3 UniChrome Linux Display 
> Driver Source Code Compiling Instructions" to compile the source code 
> for different kernel versions. This driver supports the 2D (X-Win, 
> TV-Out, TVUtility) feature only.
>
>
> http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/k8m800_890-p4m890xf41068-kernel-src_20060707.tgz 
>
> This package provides the kernel source code for the UniChrome Pro 
> K8M800/P4M890 and Chrome9 IGP K8M890CE Linux display driver. Follow 
> the "VIA S3 UniChrome Linux Display Driver Source Code Compiling 
> Instructions" to compile the source code for different kernel 
> versions. This driver supports the following features: 2D (X-Win, TV-Out,
> TVUtility); Video (HW Overlay Accelerator). It also supports DDMPEG 
> (VMI - VIA HW Mpeg Accelerator) for the K8M800 only.
>
> Both of them are for fedora type systems and I havent figured out how 
> to hack it yet.
>
>
They will probably be of some help for 2D.
But I don't think VIA has released the 3D source code.
Is there a binary 3D driver?

/Thomas