[Openchrome-users] Openchrome doesn't seem to load.

Xavier Bachelot xavier
Tue Jul 27 10:17:46 PDT 2010


On 07/27/2010 03:31 PM, M?t? Horv?th wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to ask for your help as it seems something is wrong here
> and I can't figure it out on my own. I want to get Xorg 7.5 and
> Openchrome to work on a laptop with VIA VGA chip. 
> _lspci output_: 
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800
> Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
> Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Device 10cd
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0
> 
> Other system parameters are in the attached Xorg.log. 
> 
> _What I tried so far_:
> 1) Setting up the stable driver and Xorg-7.4 ( I did try with Xorg-7.5
> but the compile fails ). It used the openchrome driver and X -configure
> put openchrome in the driver section as well. (this is not the case with
> 7.5 and svn driver). After startx the screen went blank, the input
> devices were unresponsive and I had to manually shut down the computer.
> 
> 2) I used Xorg-7.4 and svn openchrome ~ same results as above.
> 
> 3) Xorg-7.5 and svn openchrome. After X -configure unichrome driver is
> used instead of Openchrome. I corrected the driver to openchrome in
> xorg.conf and started X. I got blank screen but I was able to go back to
> the terminal and save the log. I attach the results of this procedure
> (xorg.conf and Xorg.log).
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
The logs are from the unichrome driver (which doesn't support your
chipset). Please provide logs from the openchrome driver (which should
support your chipset).

Regards,
Xavier




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