[Openchrome-users] No devices detected with Via driver

[theboomboomcars]

Re: No devices detected with Via driver
> Sorry, I did mean via_drv.so. If you've built the driver from SVN - the 
> driver itself, not the DRM kernel modules - you should have another one, 
> probably somewhere like ~/openchrome/trunk/unichrome. If you don't, 
> follow the installation instructions at 
> http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code#For_Xorg_7_0_or_later 
> again.
> 
> Once you have built it, say in ~/openchrome/trunk/unichrome, try:
>    cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
>    mv via_drv.so via_drv.so.orig
>    cd ~/openchrome/trunk/unichrome
>    cp via_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
> 
> and edit your xorg.conf to remove the ModulePath entry.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John.

I deleted the openchrome folder then followed the install instructions  then tried you instructions and was told "cp: cannot stat `via_drv.so': No such file or directory", so I am guessing that the driver module was not created again. Does this all have to be done as root or is it okay to do it as a regular user?
All I can say is that this seems weird.
Thanks for the help.

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