HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

[TuxCrafter]

Hereby I post my script as attachment for installing and compiling the open source OpenChrome graphical driver for via Chipsets.

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To install on Hardy:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
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To install on Gusty:
HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

#Version: 0.1.2
#Date: 17-03-07 / 08-06-07 / 17-06-07 /26-07-2007 /31-07-2007
#Date: 21-10-07 / 25-10-07 / 05-11-07 / 08-11-07 / 06-03-2008
#Description: Install openchrome video drivers from cvs source

These script has both community support and commercial support.

Please post all your feedback about this script so I can continuously keep improving it.

I hope this script will help a lot of people!

Where to find support if the driver installed but did not work:
http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/l...enchrome-users
http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/...ardwareCaveats

To test if the openchrome driver is working after restart of the xserver:

 grep openchrome /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(II) LoadModule: "openchrome"

glxinfo | grep render

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI UniChrome 20060710 x86/MMX/SSE2

To disable 3D rendering add the following in you xorg.conf file. 3D is causing instability on some of the openchrome systems.

 Section "Module"
    Disable "glx"
    Disable "xtrap"
    Disable "record"
    Disable "GLcore"
    Disable "dri"
EndSection

To find information about the openchrome driver options that can be used, please read the following man page.

man openchrome

The 2D openchrome driver is NOT responsible for the 3D MESA driver. The 3D MESA driver does not support some of the textures necessary to be able to run desktop effects like compiz. So its currently impossible to have desktop effects with via chipsets. The only good solution for this is to make VIA release documentation about there chipsets so developers can create working software. So first ask VIA to release documentation and then ask developers to use this documentation, not the other way around.

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[kwacka]

This shell removes/install openoffice & sun java.

Or has the brandy & coke got to me?

[TuxCrafter]

This shell removes/install openoffice & sun java.

Or has the brandy & coke got to me?

Thank you for noticing! I uploaded the openoffce.sh instead of the openchrome.sh. The problem is fixed now!

Please leave a message if you use the script.

[TuxCrafter]

I made some enhancements to the script,

There is a bug in the automatic downloaded mesa drm code. I automatically fixed this.

[tech0007]

HI,

Is this for Feisty or Gutsy?

Thanks

[TuxCrafter]

The works for both Feisty as Gutsy. However under Gusty you don't have to install the 3D driver. You must skip this step, because 3D will work out of the box after running the script.

[Кнеле]

It does not work for me. I have Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V2030, Intel Celeron 1.4GHz, 512MB of ram, Chipset Via P4M800CE, Via S3G UniChrome Pro IGP. I have installed fresh copy of new Ubuntu 7.10. The script ran well (did not ask for installation of 3D driver), and the xorg.conf file has changed to VIA driver etc., but then, after reboot, there was a mess with the colours and I had to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. It's now open SUSE on that laptop since the modem is not supported by Ubuntu, too.

[markp1989]

It does not work for me. I have Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V2030, Intel Celeron 1.4GHz, 512MB of ram, Chipset Via P4M800CE, Via S3G UniChrome Pro IGP. I have installed fresh copy of new Ubuntu 7.10. The script ran well (did not ask for installation of 3D driver), and the xorg.conf file has changed to VIA driver etc., but then, after reboot, there was a mess with the colours and I had to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. It's now open SUSE on that laptop since the modem is not supported by Ubuntu, too.

i have the same laptop and i cannt get it to work with gusty eaither

[Bawl]

It does not work for me. I have Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro V2030, Intel Celeron 1.4GHz, 512MB of ram, Chipset Via P4M800CE, Via S3G UniChrome Pro IGP. I have installed fresh copy of new Ubuntu 7.10. The script ran well (did not ask for installation of 3D driver), and the xorg.conf file has changed to VIA driver etc., but then, after reboot, there was a mess with the colours and I had to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. It's now open SUSE on that laptop since the modem is not supported by Ubuntu, too.

I second this. I'm sitting with the exact same laptop, (trying to liberate my parents) and oddly enough the screen works perfectly in 1024x768 in the NCURSES installer (Ubuntu Alternate Install CD), but when it boots the very first time, nothing higher than 800x600 is availiable as resolution.

Having read the first couple of pages in this post, and tried the script (which completed without a hitch), I simply end up with a "defective" x-server on reboot, and my linux know-how is limited enough to that being a problem.

I tried downloading the latest SuSE KDE CD instead, and it also boots the installer in 1024x768 without problems. It, however, froze on me, after a few pages of preliminary setup and on reboot it simply refused to show anything.
When I eject the CD, though, the screen changes from black to visible output, and I see some error message, about not being able to read from the CD, because it was removed.


My thoughts was that it must be less of a hassle to get it working, as it appears to work just jolly and dandy in the NCURSES-installer. That shows it must be working already?

EDIT: I see however, that it should somehow be possible to get it working, but I'd sure like to know what 'fitlad' did, besides following the instructions.

Thanks a million you have helped me to install my graphic card on my Amilo Pro V2030 and it's working like a charm . I wouldn't be able to sort it out without your support.

[carlvillan]

hi i tried your scrip openchrome sh with no luck ,i i got a x error at the end i dont know if there were more errors but i didnt notice any more. my chip is p4m890 ,ubuntu feisty,7.04 biostar mobo any new ideas for this.iam a newbee in ubuntu .