[Openchrome-users] Ubuntu 12.04 and CN896 chipset only in 1024x768

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 11/19/2012 05:41 PM, xxlray at web.de wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a PC3500G mainbord with VIA CN896 chipset. Some time ago I
> managed to get the graphic driver running on Ubuntu 11.10 (which was a
> pain in the ... as far as I remember).
> Because of some software issues I had to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04.
> Unfortunately it does not properly detect my graphic card. When the
> graphical user interface boots an error message always pops up telling
> me a long list of resolutions that did not work. Finally everything is
> displayed at 1024x768 (and I can choose 800x600). What I need instead is
> 720p i.e. 1080x720.
> The xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package is already installed. On
> Ubuntu 11.10 it worked quite ok (1080p - 1920x1080 - which was then
> scaled down by my projector and a bit blurry) when I compiled the driver
> directly from the sources. Unfortunately for compilation there are now
> some packages missig (e.g. xorg-server) which are no longer in the
> Ubuntu repositories.
> I hope there is some help somewhere.
> Regards
> XXLRay
>
Please provide your xorg log.
Also, you might want to try with latest release (0.3.1) or even git master.

Regards,
Xavier