[Openchrome-users] Request to mailing list openchrome-users rejected

[Sagar Sawant]

Hello Xavier

Got the 0.3 source and compiled it but X failed to startup ...

I use Lubuntu 12.04 32-bit with the latest kernel3 x .27 i think it is ...

Also, I seem to be satisfied with the VIA driver ... glxgears giving
980 fps ... although VIA runs on XAA and not exa ... with exa it
crashes/does not show desktop after i enter password at the lightDM
login screen ... nothing in logs ... suggest which log to look at ...

I suggest you let me know what outputs and tests to run which can be
of help you and I will do so and post the results to you/mailing list
for the motherboard and processor mentioned ...

Thats the best I can contribute to this project ...

Regards,

Sagar


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sagar,
>
> On 07/24/2012 07:07 AM, Sagar Sawant wrote:
> > Hello Xavier
> >
> > VIA has just released a beta driver for newer kernels and VX900 ...
> > along with the source it seems ...
> >
> > http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action
> >
> > I am using 12.04 ubuntu ...
> >
> > I think you should have a look at it ...should help in your development
> > ...
> >
> Yes, we know this has been released very recently, although the
> corresponding binary driver has been there for months, as well as
> several other releases w/o corresponding source code. I've regularly
> poked at the VIA people to get the source, and they have kept promising
> to release it "soon". Glad they finally did, and be assured we'll make
> good use of the information that can be gathered from their source. This
> will be especially useful for the next round of development which should
> be devoted toward making the DRM driver better and eventually have it
> incorporated in upstream kernel.
> As a side note, I don't count 2.6.38 as new, this is rather old ;-)
>
> > Will be trying the driver in a couple of days time and will let you
> > know the results ...
> >
> Testing results from VIA's code is not of much interest for the
> openchrome project. I'd rather have testing results from the latest
> openchrome release.
>
> > Need to figure out if my current openchrome driver is a module or
> > statically inside the kernel ... only then can I try and compile it
> > and use it ...
> >
> You're mixing things here. The openchrome driver has nothing to do with
> the kernel, this is an X driver.
> There are some instruction in the wiki explaining how to build it :
>
> http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/Installation#Installfromareleasetarball
>
> > When will the VX900 driver have MP4 and MPEG acceleration support? Its
> > a must at least if not 3D ...
> >
> The work to support the mpeg engine as found on CX700 and later chips
> has been started long ago, and I have had it running on a VX800 at some
> point. Unfortunately, this still needs to be cleaned up and merged to
> master. That will happen eventually, but this is not on the top of the
> todo list. Also, this will only bring MPEG2 acceleration, MPEG4 is a
> whole different story, and needs lots more work. Also, XvMC is probably
> not very useful these days, libva or vdpau would be more future-proof.
>
> 3D is also on the todo list, but again, not at the top.
>
> So much to do, and so little people with not enough time on their hand
> to do it...
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>
> PS: I guess you're new to mailing lists, and I'd like to remember some
> rules : no top posting, no html mail, trim quotes and keep the mailing
> list CC'ed. This comment is not meant to be rude or anything, this is
> just informative, and it might be useful to others to be remembered the
> rules as well. Thanks in advance:-)