[Openchrome-users] openchrome on ubuntu intrepid

[Xavier Bachelot]

Stefan Scheffler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been toying around with the development version of ubuntu on my
> laptop with a K8M800 and ran into some problems.
> 
> With their 2.6.26 kernel Xorg starts running with 100% cpu usage as soon
> as I move the cursor, a minute later the machine hangs. Oddly enough
> this doesn't happen at a display manager prompt, at least not with the
> ones I've tried..
> 
> With the hardy 2.6.24 kernel most gtk apps seem to  hit an assert and
> segfault when they open a dialog or menu.
> 
> This is the message they print:
> 
> (gimp:5262): Gdk-CRITICAL **: get_monitor: assertion `monitor_num <
> screen_x11-> n_monitors' failed
> 
> Both issues don't happen with the vesa driver. I've tried trunk and
> the version of openchrome that comes with ubuntu. Xorg version is
> 1.4.99.905. I would have tried unichrome too but that doesn't seem to
> build against that version.
> 
unichrome doesn't have support for libpciaccess.

> I'm mostly curious if openchrome is supposed to work with a that kind
> of system.
> 
Yes, xorg server 1.5 is supported. Fedora 9 is using it for some time 
now. However, libpciaccess support is still fresh and is probably not 
bug-free.

Regards,
Xavier