[Openchrome-users] Ubuntu package?

Thu Apr 13 19:29:19 UTC 2017

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your help. My old notebook (Amilo Li 1705) has a VIA VN896 chipset as well. So there is some hope :-)

I was able to install version 0.6 from Dylan's repository. It just installed without any need of a further package. But it made things worse. Standby-resume still didn't work, plus: graphics got garbled when switching to a tty console (Ctrl-Alt-F1). So I went back to 0.3.3.

Before I report a bug I would like to follow your guide to compile myself - just to exclude Dylan's package as a root cause.

I also was playing around with boot parameters. Their role is unclear for me. What about "-nomodeset" for example? In some posts people say it is needed. And what about the "viafb" kernel module? Some say it should be blacklisted. But on my system it's anyway not loaded by default. (And if I load it by hand it crashes my system).

Cheers,
Marty

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:48:55 +0200
"Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi Marty,
> 
> Last year, I posted detailed instructions on how to compile the OpenChrome DDX straight from the upstream Git repository for Ubuntu based OSes.
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2016-February/007237.html
> 
> Please note that if you chose to switch to HWE (HardWare Enablement) version, you should not enter the following line.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> 
> The above line will possibly wreck your X.Org Server.
> You will have to figure out the appropriate version in this case, I will think that the following will be appropriate if you have Ubuntu 14.04.5 components installed.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-xenial
> 
> For more details, the following link explains in detail of what is going on.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
> 
> If you are not sure, stick to the original instruction on how to build th dependency, which is this one.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> 
>     At this point, I do not actively maintain or distribute pre-compiled OpenChrome DDX .deb files, but Dylan Aïssi has done so.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~dylan.a/+archive/ubuntu/xxv-openchrome
> https://launchpad.net/~dylan.a/+archive/ubuntu/xxv-openchrome-unstable
> 
> Follow the instructions on the page on how to add an PPA to your particular system.
> I have not tested his .deb files, so do it at your own risk.
>     Generally speaking, I do not recommend using Canonical supplied stock xserver-xorg-video-openchrome since they are very, very slow to update to the latest one, and furthermore, they are ridiculously stubborn when it comes to replacing the older broken versions like Version 0.3.3 with the latest release.
> I have given two of their developers my assurance that replacing older Version 0.3.3 with a newer one is a no brainer, but due to their update policies, they are not really able to replace the older buggier ones with the latest release.
> Regardless, I do not recommend using Version 0.3.3, 0.4, and 0.5 since Version 0.6 fixes many issues that exists in these versions.
>     Since the standby resume issue you are having appears to be a bug, I recommend that you file a bug report with https://bugs.freedesktop.org.
> Last month, I did a bug triage without freedesktop.org Bugzilla, and it was painful to do it this way, so from now on, I will only handle it via freedesktop.org Bugzilla.
> Here is the official location to file a bug.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/openchrome
> 
> If they prompt you to enter User ID and password, please go create an account with freedesktop.org Bugzilla, activate the account, and then revisit the link above.
> I will give you detailed instructions on what information I am looking for.
> Just for the record, I do most development on two VN896 chipset based laptops (Epic 1314 and HP 2133), and standby resume works fine on Xubuntu 14.04.
> That being said, Epic 1314 has an issue restoring the hardware cursor on Lubuntu 12.04 in most cases.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kevin Brace
> The OpenChrome Project maintainer / developer
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:02:24 +0200
> > From: Marty <martin651 at gmx.de>
> > To: openchrome-users at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: [Openchrome-users] Ubuntu package?
> > Message-ID: <20170410210224.7e3ba301 at AMILO-Li1705>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > 
> > Dear Kevin,
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for still maintaining Openchrome!!!. I am also running an old notebook with VIA Chrome9 with Lubuntu 14.04 and your driver makes it possible!
> > 
> > Is there any chance to get a compiled package for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)? I tried to compile from the source code but got lost with missing dependencies and finally crashed my system.
> > 
> > (I wanted to update the driver with the hope to be able to resume from Standby without garbling the graphics.)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Marty
> > 
> >
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