[Openchrome-users] Call for packagers

[Xavier Bachelot]

Hi Paulo,

pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
> 
>  BTW, was some openchrome developer able to test on this computer?:
> 
> http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=29
> 
> (portuguese only)
> http://www.positivoinformatica.com.br/site/mobile_config_v52.htm
> 
>  Mandriva made OEMs to computers based on the above laptop that I
> believe sold, and still sell a signficantly large number in the
> Brazilian market.
>  They were shipped with via binary drivers. Actually, I joined again
> Mandriva recently (well, almost 6 months now), and never managed to talk
> with anybody from via, besides sending mails to contacts at via, clevo
> and positivo from time to time.
>  The only way I managed to use the openchrome driver (using latest
> versions and experimental branch also) on this computer was with the
> options "UseVBEModes" and "ShadowFB". Now I only have one version
> with an old bios/implementation that doesn't even work with the above
> options.
>
I don't believe this particular model has been tested by developers, but 
I believe the pci id is known and this laptop should be detected as 'Neo 
Endura 540SLe'. Enabling LCD should trigger automatically the use of 
VBEModes.

release/trunk should work fine with this laptop, to the extend of what 
VBE can do, which may or may not be of much use.

You might want to try the randr branch which does have improved panel 
code that doesn't require VBE anymore. Theoretically, this new code 
should be able to drive properly all laptop's panel but it's currently 
only enabled for P4M900/CN896/VN896. I have a patch to enable it for all 
chips but CLE266 and KM400, which are already properly supported.
http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/patches/openchrome-randr_new_panel_code_for_all.patch

Regards,
Xavier