HOW TO: Compiling and Installing the OpenChrome Graphical VIA Driver

**bonnyfused** · May 26th, 2009

Hy people.

How high should "glxgears" FPS be with openchrome drivers on an Acer Aspire 1355 (AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+)?
I get around 50-52 FPS...

Moving windows in Xorg I see them somehow "sticky" movement...

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

**TuxCrafter** · May 27th, 2009

Originally Posted by bonnyfused

Hy people.

How high should "glxgears" FPS be with openchrome drivers on an Acer Aspire 1355 (AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+)?
I get around 50-52 FPS...

Moving windows in Xorg I see them somehow "sticky" movement...

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

It should hire then 100 at leased, while this is always speculation glxgears is not a benchmarking tool. You can only use it to see if 3D rendering is working. What does glxinfo say? And you should use the drivers that come with Ubuntu, there should not be a need to compile the driver manually.

Cheers

**bonnyfused** · May 28th, 2009

Hello all! Everything ok, thanks for the great script! Succeeded in installing Ubuntu 9.04 on an Acer Aspire 1355!!!

Used this guide (script):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7357750

**gevork** · July 14th, 2009

create new symbolic link
Prepare the installation files [Y/n]?y
Install the via openchrome 2D driver [Y/n]?y
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 76: svn: command not found
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 78: cd: openchrome: No such file or directory
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 79: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

WHat to do? I have just clicked on this .sh file attached at first of the topic and get at the end this problem... Please help...

**gary4gar** · July 15th, 2009

Originally Posted by gevork

create new symbolic link
Prepare the installation files [Y/n]?y
Install the via openchrome 2D driver [Y/n]?y
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 76: svn: command not found
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 78: cd: openchrome: No such file or directory
/home/gevork/Desktop/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6/openchrome-stable.sh: line 79: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

WHat to do? I have just clicked on this .sh file attached at first of the topic and get at the end this problem... Please help...

you seem to be missing subversion(svn), install it and then try

Code:

sudo apt-get install subversion

**CosSin** · August 9th, 2011

I know it's nearly two and a half years since these posts, but i was wondering of the progress made in the openchrome project on the K8M890CE chipset. I have a laptop (so i can't really change the video card) and i want to get the openchrome driver working on ubuntu 11.04. If any1 still picks up on this thread I would gladly apreciate any help.

**vijayrao** · April 6th, 2012

yes
worked well
thanx

**sshaitan** · April 24th, 2012

Шлак какой-то, вместо таких извращений, лучше б рассказал как поставить дрова на Unichrome pro

**emeraldknight1977** · January 1st, 2013

I know this is an old post, and might not be ment for current Ubuntu. It did run with errors, but I'm still using the Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300) instead of OpenChrome. I have the factory drivers for my integrated graphics card, but I they don't seam to work with Ubuntu 12.04.