[Openchrome-users] Black screen with VIA Chrome9 HC DX9

[Benno Schulenberg]

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> ,----[ dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm ]
>
> | [   15.928550] agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
> | [   15.932791] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
> | [   16.595580] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
> | [  507.391325] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> | [  512.997160] [drm] Initialized via 2.11.0 20061227 on minor 0

Why is yours not saying anything about a chipset being detected?  Is 
your kernel configured correctly?  Or is it simply too old and does 
not know about the 890 yet?  Find your kernel config and grep 
through it.

# grep -e AGP -e DRM /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_AGP=y
# CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_ATI is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y
# CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON is not set
CONFIG_DRM=m
# CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m

> No, make in the git checkout's linux-core subdir fails with an
> error:
>
> | `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic' make: *** [modules]
> | Error 2

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=419094  does not help?

Benno