Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:47:19 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Intron is my alias on the Internet <intron@intron.ac> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another VIA UniChrome/Chrome9 Driver Message-ID: <1226418439.10032.2.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> In-Reply-To: <courier.49199C4C.00010EA3@intron.ac> References: <courier.49199C4C.00010EA3@intron.ac>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--=-L+z1xq2b+wBsCO6T4vIj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:53 +0800, Intron is my alias on the Internet wrote: > Port: http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/xf86-video-via-linux.tar.gz >=20 > If the distfile cannot be downloaded from VIA's website, please > download it from my server: > http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/chrome9.83-242-sl10.1.tar.gz >=20 > This is official driver from VIA, originally for SuSE 10.1. > It works on my laptop (BENQ Joybook R41E) and VIA pc-1 motherboard. > The GPU of my laptop is: >=20 > vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x86241071 chip=3D0x334311= 06 rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 > vendor =3D 'VIA Technologies Inc' > device =3D 'VIA/S3G UniChromePro IGP' > class =3D display > subclass =3D VGA >=20 > OpenChrome doesn't work with it (chip's PID =3D 0x3343) at all. >=20 > It supports features as well as OpenChrome: >=20 > * XVideo > * Rotation > * Dual Display > - Mono display on only either LCD or VGA only > - DuoView (The same scene on both LCD and VGA simultaneously) >=20 > I failed to get SAMM (different scenes on LCD and VGA). >=20 > I believe it is useful for people who is using laptop with VIA chipset. >=20 > And I hope it can be put into port tree before it is out of date. > Any FreeBSD committee can help me? How does this compare to our Xorg driver? I've contemplated finishing the via drm work, but I don't have any of these devices and I'm not sure how many people do. At least that care about drm anyway... robert. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From Beijing, China >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=-L+z1xq2b+wBsCO6T4vIj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkkZqQYACgkQM4TrQ4qfROPr8gCeK3SqAuL1KDg90+tGnfMJnvWq KfcAn2H9CDeKdfB5kKCUFBVkh8iSRZMQ =5eXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-L+z1xq2b+wBsCO6T4vIj--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1226418439.10032.2.camel>