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

[Sylvain Poirier]

Hello. I'm finally just trying now long after you replied.

(I'm only trying with the usb boot of ubuntu netbook, not installing
it on the hard drive, does it make any difference ?)

I have no xorg.conf file on this system but I can import one from the
suse installation if necessary. In fact I had once tried and then the
system blocked while restarting the graphical interface.

Now I just tried
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/Installation#InstallfromSVN

First the system said I must install subversion, so I did it.
Then the command
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
gave the following reply
./autogen.sh: 9: autoreconf: not found
so I stopped tries there.

2011/1/16 Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:
> 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"
>
> Please keep the list CC'ed when replying.
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>