[Openchrome-users] FC8

[Xavier Bachelot]

Tony Grant wrote:
> Happy New Year!!!
> 
> To celebrate 2008 (and the soon to be end of life of FC6) 

No, it's already EOL'ed as of December, 7th.

> I just did a
> clean install of Fedora Core 8.
> 
> 	- what the hell is the "via" driver supplied on the DVD? Sucks.
> 
This is what is currently in xorg.freedesktop.org tree. Let's call it 
abandonware. openchrome will be the default in Fedora 9.

> 	- installed the openchrome driver from Fedora Extras and got back stuff
> like 1440x900 resolution on the CLE266. Goodness.
> 
> glxgears seems to indicate that I need to install another version od
> DRM/DRI? Runs much too slow
>
glxgears is not a benchmark. Do you have any evidence that something is 
not running as smooth as it should ?

> I found a page  that gave me a list of stuff to install and which I am
> sure that I will need to compile xine (1.2 for VDR). I can not find the
> page again!!! Google is not my friend...
> 
Most of VDR stuff is/will be incorporated into xinelib, if I believe 
what I read on xine-devel mailing list. Meanwhile, you might want to 
take a look at the livna/rpmfusion xine stuff, VDR options might just be 
a compilation flag away, or even already in.

> Help Xavier
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tony

Regards,
Xavier