From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 23:27:36 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 858B916A468 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:27:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail47.e.nsc.no (mail47.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEF813C461 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:27:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.173.189] (062016173189.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.173.189]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail47.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id m0UNRUsM008305; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:27:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <47A10734.60200@netscape.net> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:24:36 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071208) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47A0D611.7020804@netscape.net> <20080130150317.tnkg5nvqm880kow4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20080130150317.tnkg5nvqm880kow4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 23:27:36 -0000 John Nielsen wrote: > 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. Thanks, John. I wasn't sure about this port. I first tried to download it as a package and started X with the driver "via" (according to the documentation), but X did not find it. I then got rid of the package as well as the old via driver and installed xf86-video-openchrome as a port. It still did not work. However, studying the new error message, I decided to correct the driver to "openchrome", which DID work. I must have come across some stale documentation. At any rate, I can now start X, and it responds to the Gamma line. To some extent it also works with xvidtune. Screen size and placement is not perfect, but I hope this can be improved when I have studied the "caveats" mentioned at the openchrome site. Things look promising now. -- Tore