From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 20:03:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5668E16A420 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385F813C4DD for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m0UK3HqU059195; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: (from www@localhost) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id m0UK3HSL059194; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.jnielsen.net: www set sender to john@jnielsen.net using -f Received: from nc-2wac-zop08.wachovia.com (nc-2wac-zop08.wachovia.com [162.111.235.19]) by newwebmail.jnielsen.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20080130150317.tnkg5nvqm880kow4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:17 -0500 From: John Nielsen To: Tore Lund References: <47A0D611.7020804@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <47A0D611.7020804@netscape.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.4) / FreeBSD-4.9 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:18 -0000 Quoting Tore Lund : > My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, > which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no > doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. > > There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few > comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even > the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. > > I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot > on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this > processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv > driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB > channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. I haven't used it, but you may want to check out the openchrome project (http://www.openchrome.org). There is a FreeBSD port available in the ports tree under x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome. JN