[Openchrome-users] installation-report: stretch-testing on NEOWARE m100: no graphics

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Andreas,

The issue you are having probably is outside of OpenChrome's control.
There appears to be an issue finding the correct library, and I am not really familiar dealing with this kind of a situation.
I guess this is called the dependencies issue, I suppose.
I almost exclusively use Xubuntu / Lubuntu LTS versions for development and validation, and obviously, I am able to compile and load OpenChrome without issues.
To "prove" that Neoware m100 mobile thin client's hardware is compatible with OpenChrome, you may want to download, compile, and install the latest OpenChrome code.
This post I made while back is very detailed, so you should not have issues installing the latest OpenChrome code.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2016-February/007237.html

Regards,

Kevin Brace
The OpenChrome Project maintainer / developer


> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 10:33:04 +0100
> From: Andreas Glaeser <bugs.andreas.glaeser at freenet.de>
> To: 800367 at bugs.debian.org, openchrome-users at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Openchrome-users] installation-report: stretch-testing on
> 	NEOWARE	m100: no graphics
> Message-ID: <20170108103304.26e855a8 at a68n.lokal>
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> There is some improvement visible regarding openchrome video-diver, particularly, there
> 
> is no xorg.conf necessary any more in order to make use of the VESA-driver, but obviously
> 
> X falls back to VESA automatically, which is positive in my opinion, so people will have
> 
> some workable graphics-output, even if openchrome-video-driver is not workable properly on
> 
> their hardware, without fiddling with Xorg-configuration.
> 
> See attached logfile [Xorg.0.log]
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is the essential part of the log, showing, why openchrome is
> not workable yet:
> 
> .
> .
> ..
> > [    24.359] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"
> > [    24.368] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so
> > [    24.390] (EE) Failed to
> > load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: undefined symbol: vgaHWFreeHWRec
> [    24.393] (II) UnloadModule: "openchrome"
> > [    24.393] (II) Unloading openchrome
> > [    24.393] (EE) Failed to load module "openchrome" (loader failed, 7)
> ..
> .
> .
> 
> It would be even nicer, guys, if openchrome worked properly on my hardware instead of
> falling back to VESA. Now this would really be super-great, get it?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > X.Org X server -- VIA display driver
> > 
> > OpenChrome is a project for the development of free and open-source drivers for the VIA
> > UniChrome video chipsets.
> > 
> > Originally called the 'snapshot' release, since it was a snapshot of an experimental
> > branch of the unichrome cvs code, this is a continued development of the open source
> > unichrome driver (from http://unichrome.sf.net) which also incorporates support for the
> > unichrome-pro chipsets.
> > 
> > Support for hardware acceleration (XvMC) for all chipsets has subsequently been ripped
> > out of the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore your only option if you wish to make use
> > of the acceleration features of your VIA chip with free and open-source drivers is to
> > use this version of the driver.
> > 
> > Tags: Hardware Enablement: Graphics and Video, Implemented in: C, Role: Plugin,
> > Purpose: Hardware Driver Other Packages Related to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> > 
> >     depends
> > 
> > 	
> > 
> >     recommends
> > 
> > 	
> > 
> >     suggests
> > 
> > 	
> > 
> >     enhances
> > 
> >     dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) [amd64]
> >         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> >         also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb 
> > 
> >     dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [i386]
> > 
> >     dep: libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1)
> >         Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -- runtime 
> > 
> >     dep: libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1)
> >         X11 client-side library 
> > 
> >     dep: libxext6
> >         X11 miscellaneous extension library 
> > 
> >     dep: libxv1
> >         X11 Video extension library 
> > 
> >     dep: libxvmc1
> >         X11 Video extension library 
> > 
> >     dep: xorg-video-abi-23
> >         virtual package provided by xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-core-udeb 
> > 
> >     dep: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.18.99.901)
> >         Xorg X server - core server 
> > 
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