[Openchrome-users] Some questions and issues on a Via CN13000 (VM800)

[Bilderbeek, Manuel]

Hello all,

I'm using OpenChrome SVN 283 on FC6 on a Via CN13000. The driver says
this is a VM800 (PCI id is 1106:3344). I'd like to share my experiences
with you and hope to get comments from you. I'll also ask some general
questions.

Question: do I need DRI working to have accelerated 2D?

I got DRI working by upgrading my kernel from the standard 2.6.18 to the
2.6.19 one in FC6 updates (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6).

However, I saw some screen corruption using some 2D screensavers: this
is most noticable when running the screensaver menu (I used the one in
the GNOME menu, but probably xscreensaver-demo will show it as well):
especially "Critical" draws lines at the left of the screen when you
move the window over the right edge of the screen. So, clipping goes
wrong or something. I can provide a screenshot if you're interested.

Question: is this the right place to report such bugs?

Then, I'm also interested in 3D. I tried some 3D programs, and they seem
to work pretty well, now that I have DRI enabled and "dri" and "glx"
modules loaded in xorg.conf. Note that without those 2 loaded, the X
server crashes when running glxinfo e.g.

Question: what is the status of the 3D driver? I understood that
OpenChrome is not involved with this. But maybe someone knows where to
get more information about the status? Who is working on it? (If anyone,
I heard it was unmaintained... Is that true?) I've heard about 3D
"issues", but what are those?
Also, I get a lot of "3D driver claims to not support visual 0x46" in my
terminal when running 3D apps.

I'm attaching my Xorg.0.log for reference.

Thanks in advance for any reply.

--
Kind regards,

Manuel Bilderbeek


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