[Openchrome-users] openchrome, video driver problems and my asus motherboard P5VD2-VM SE

[Xavier Bachelot]

Gordie Hatt wrote:
> Hi I appreciate your help, i am very new to linux and just doing my first 
> install of it using Ubuntu 8.04. I am putting this on a new computer which 
> will eventually be a file/mail server here in the office. We are getting away 
> from XP as an OS on our server because or the 10 computer problem.
> 
> My problem is that i am suffering from the same video problem as described in 
> this thread
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.openchrome.user/266
> 
> when i figured out how to do the steps described by Xaviar in the thread it 
> did not work.
> 
> when i inputted ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> i got
> ./autogen.sh 9:autoreconf:not found
> 
> returned 
> 
> i don't know where to go from here, i hope someone here can lead me by my very 
> Linux inexperiance hand through it or at least maybe point the way to go and 
> i'll try to fumble along
> 
> thanks for your help in advance
> Gord
> 
You should stick with what your distribution provides if you're not 
experimented enough to build on your own. Ubuntu 8.04 does ship with a 
recent version of openchrome, but unfortunately not recent enough.
This bug is fixed with changeset 508, included in 0.2.902, so file a bug 
at your distro asking either to update to 0.2.902 or to backport the fix 
from changeset 508.

Meanwhile, the following should bring you all you need to build from svn 
(taken from some outdated Ubuntu docs referenced in the openchrome wiki):
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-via
sudo apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool

Regards,
Xavier

PS: why do you need a _video_ driver on a server ?