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

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 01/16/2011 08:43 PM, Sylvain Poirier wrote:
> 2011/1/16 Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Sorry my linux skills are rather rudimentary. Can you please tell me
> what I can do to fix my display problem in an easily understandable
> way. I don't have a clue how to "rebuild the driver from a subversion
> checkout", nor do I know the syntax rules of xorg conf.
> 
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/Installation#InstallfromSVN

or

if you have an xorg conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf), add
Option "ForcePanel"
below the line that says :
Driver      "openchrome"

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Regards,
Xavier