Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:07:54 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: video for VIA/S3G CLE266 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501140347270.89970@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <41E77E68.5060406@finnovative.net> References: <41E7704E.3050901@finnovative.net> <41E77E68.5060406@finnovative.net>
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the great instructions for furnning xorgconfig and the > > handbook. I was wondering what to pick for the video driver in > > xorgconfig. There's no option for VIA/S3G CLE266. VIA ships with a > > Linux driver (DRI.TGZ and CLEXF400030). :-\ The chipset comes on the > > VIA PD10000 mobo > > (http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_PD_spec.jsp?motherboardId=241) > > Hi, > > I found these links. It looks like I might have to build something. > Would I have to rebuild Xorg? :'( > > http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ > http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/lib/XvMC/hw/via/ > http://www.ivor.it/cle266/ > http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ > > Would I have to get the latest xorg + these drivers with some sort of > package manager? How can I tell the current version of Xorg that I am > running? Could I just compile these drivers? If so, how do I get them > to work, and how do I get it into the system so that I can select them? I doubt that you can just compile a newer chipset specific server and have it work, but even if you can, it would probably be more technically challenging than using the ports collection to update the whole thing (or the packages which I know little about.) To get the version, --- thuppi@agama ~> X -version X Window System Version 6.8.1 Release Date: 17 September 2004 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1 ... --- I just built and installed xorg from the ports collection to try to get rid of all references to 'libc_r' which was crashing certain applications on my 5.3 system (upgraded from 5.1 via buildworld.) It was not too bad...just took a long time on my old machine. I suggest (if using 'ports' rather than 'packages') that one maybe does a 'cd ...x11/xorg make', then after it builds sucessfully pkg_delete the XFree86 stuff, then go back and 'make install'. This will allow normal use of the machine for the day or so it takes to build xorg. Since this wasn't the route I took I can't say conclusivly that it would work, but I think it should be fine. Maybe you should also review some of the other discusions of such an upgrade via google. Also, on one of my machines, 'startx' didn't work after the upgrade. I had to run /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgconfig. Might want to make sure you know your you monitor specs, but looking at the old /etc/XF86Config will tell you what you had been using. On my other (also ancient) machine with a similar history, xorg worked fine using the old XF86Config file. Keep us posted about progress if you could. I wish to get one of these VIA machines, but I'm holding out for better availability of boards with the newer CM400 chipset. Thanks, - Tom
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