[Openchrome-users] How-To: VN896 working well on a laptop widescreen 1280x800

[Xavier Bachelot]

nelo_bsb wrote:
> Re: How-To: VN896 working well on a laptop	widescreen 1280x800
> I edited the how-to guide.
> 
> But I cannot undestand which motherboard was detected. Attaching my xorg.log file, so you can find it better than me.
> 
(--) VIA(0): Detected Neo Endura 540SLe.
This is actually a Clevo board, but I wasn't able to identified which 
one, so I put the laptop brand and model.

As long as you use Option "ActiveDevice" "LCD" in your xorg.conf, you 
shouldn't need to use Option "ForcePanel".

> And how about this messages:
> 
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
> (EE) VIA(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> 
P4M900/VN896 needs some patches both for DRM and AGP.
http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=P4M900

Regards,
Xavier