[Openchrome-users] P4M800CE being detected as VM800

[Xavier Bachelot]

Chad wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm running OpenChrome via drivers from today, and DRM checked out
> from today as well, all following the instructions on the wiki (and
> using svn/cvs as necessary).
> 
> A bit of background:
> I had a working [Gentoo] system and decided to break it :(  I was
> upgrading a few major packages (GCC to 4.1.1, Xorg to 7.1) and decided
> I should also include updates to Via, MythTV and Mplayer.  And now I
> have a slightly unusable system.  XvMC isn't actually working in
> mythtv, and I believe it is due to X incorrectly identifying my
> chipset.

Actually P4M800Pro, VN800 and CN700 are using the same unichrome engine, 
so it might be confusing to read that your P4M800Pro chipset is detected 
as a VN800, but actually it's the same.

I guess you are rather hit by the XV/XvMC not working on all VN800 bug. 
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/ticket/40

Regards,
Xavier