[Openchrome-users] Driver is producing "artefacts"

[Benno Schulenberg]

Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> I have a Fujitsu Siemens K7610 notebook which is equipped with a
> VIA Unichrome pro chipset.
>
> maggie:~# lspci|grep -i vga
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3
> Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)
>
> I'm not really sure which chipset this

>From your Xorg.log:
(--) VIA(0): Chipset: "K8M800"

That should be clear.  But then:

(--) VIA(0): Borked 2
(--) VIA(0): Chipset revision: 0

Interesting.  X seems to know that the chip is broken.

> 1) On movement, animations and alike some weird
> screen effects happen. I have provided a screenshot

Hmm... quite artistic.  :)

> Could you tell me if both or at least 1) is fixable by some
> config setting

Try using Option "NoAccel".

Benno