[Openchrome-users] Display problem trying ubuntu netbook on a picobook pro

[Xavier Bachelot]

Hi Sylvain,

On 01/16/2011 11:34 AM, Sylvain Poirier wrote:
> Hello. I have troubles trying to run ubuntu netbook on my picobook pro
> (where Suse is preinstalled and seems to work normally): the display
> is scrambled (I only tried running it with usb key for now). I first
> explained the situation at
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1643693
> 
This should be fixed in trunk rev 904. You can either rebuild the driver
from an subversion checkout or add
Option "ForcePanel"
to the device section of your xorg conf.

> To be short, I must use an external screen to be able to do anything
> with it, and what I could see there is:
> Before logging in, there is an error message: "No required driver
> detected for Unity".

afaik, Unity requires 3D driver but there's no free 3D driver for
Chrome9 chipsets. This shouldn't be a show-stopper though.

> Trying to test the sound it did not seem to work, though I'm not sure
> how to properly test it.
>
No idea, sorry. The sound issue is off-topic for this mailing list anyway.

> The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file says:
> [ 537.590] (EE) CHROME(0): Unknown Card-Ids (1122|1509|3002), Chipset:
> VX800/VX820; please report to openchrome-users at openchrome.org
> (more of this file is in the above thread)
> 
Thanks for the report.

Regards,
Xavier