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Thread: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

  1. #1
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    HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

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

    -- -- -- -- -- --
    To install on Hardy:

    sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
    -- -- -- -- -- --

    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:

    Code:
     grep openchrome /var/log/Xorg.0.log
    (II) LoadModule: "openchrome"

    Code:
    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.

    Code:
     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.
    Code:
    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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    Last edited by TuxCrafter; March 7th, 2008 at 10:52 AM. Reason: new version

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    This shell removes/install openoffice & sun java.

    Or has the brandy & coke got to me?

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    Quote Originally Posted by kwacka View Post
    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.
    Last edited by TuxCrafter; November 17th, 2007 at 04:12 PM. Reason: typo

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    I made some enhancements to the script,

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

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    HI,

    Is this for Feisty or Gutsy?

    Thanks

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    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.

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    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.
    Last edited by Кнеле; October 19th, 2007 at 07:06 PM. Reason: Update

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    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 .

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    there has just been a new official release of the openchrome driver. It changes the name of the xorg module from via to openchrome. I had to figure this out and it took some time. I uploaded a new script that has been tested under gusty gibbon.

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    Re: HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

    Everybody that had no luck with the script, please try again. It should work perfectly now. Make sure to reboot your computer after the installation.

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