Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:24:36 +0100 From: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> To: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9? Message-ID: <47A10734.60200@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <20080130150317.tnkg5nvqm880kow4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> References: <47A0D611.7020804@netscape.net> <20080130150317.tnkg5nvqm880kow4@newwebmail.jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net>: >> 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
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