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

[Xavier Bachelot]

> 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
>>
On 05/10/2011 11:31 PM, Sylvain Poirier wrote:
 > Sorry, can anyone help to finish fixing this problem please ? thank
 > you in advance.
 >
 >
 > ------------
 > From: Sylvain Poirier<trustforum at gmail.com>
 > Date: 2011/5/1
 > To: Xavier Bachelot<xavier at bachelot.org>
 > Cc : Openchrome<openchrome-users at openchrome.org>
 >
 >
 > 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.
 >
You have all the needed information in the link I posted, or actually 
for your current issue, slightly below in the page. Please do your 
homework :-)

sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

And please don't top post.

X.