[Openchrome-users] drivers not working (VIA chrome 9HC)

[Xavier Bachelot]

Marco Pieruccetti wrote:
> Hi,
> i get the driver, compile/make/make-install it. My system now seems 
> correctly load it, but i obtain a "dirty" screen with white lines and 
> pixels, not centered.
> I get only these two suspect lines, in Xorg.0.log:
> 
> -) drm opendevice: open failed
> 
> and
> 
> -) screen 0 is not dri capable
> 
> but checking the modules with lsmod i see
> 
> via,
> drm,
> agpgart
> 
> all loaded.
> I attach the Xorg.0.log (in zipped format)
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> Marco Pieruccetti wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> i'm the "mpieru" user on Ubuntu Forum (ubuntuforums.org), and i'm trying
>>> to get work from my graphic card (motherboard-embedded) that use the VIA
>>> chrome 9HC chipset. In detail, my motherboard is MSI MS-7255.
>>> I tried the openchrome drivers, as said here:
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3814017&postcount=120
>>>
>>> but i get the message (in Xorg.0.log):
>>>
>>> (EE) VIA-0: Unknown Card-IDs (1462|7255); please report to
>>> openchrome-users at openchrome.org
>>>
>>
>> The driver you are using is too old, this motherboard is known for a 
>> long time now. Get and compile the release tarball at : 
>> http://www.openchrome.org/releases
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xavier
>>
>>
> 

ok, actually the card id is missing. I was misleaded by MSI. MS7255 is 
using a P4M890 while MS7255 v1.2 and MS7255 v2.0 are using P4M900. Go 
figure...
So which motherboard do you have ? P4M900M (MS7255 v1.2) or P4M900M2-F/L 
(MS7255 v2.0) ?

Regards,
Xavier

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