I just put together a cheap Sempron system with an Abit VA-10 board that has an onboard S3 Unichrome chipset. I installed FC2 and updated to the latest rawhide hwdata, system-config-display, Xorg and kernel packages.
system-config-display doesn't recognize the chipset at all and suggests the VESA driver. Should I open a bug for this?
I edited xorg.conf and set it straight. X runs fine and 2D seems accelerated but 3D is not. I thought Unichrome DRM had been merged but I don't see a kernel module for it; is there any way to turn it on?
I'm quite happy that 2D is working; thanks to all who have made this possible. A quick note, though: the video output on this board is blurry and generally rather poor. I've tried several (Unichrome, Intel, ProSavage) and have yet to find an onboard chipset that produces reasonable video output.
lspci shows:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:56:51PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
system-config-display doesn't recognize the chipset at all and suggests the VESA driver. Should I open a bug for this?
Yes.
I edited xorg.conf and set it straight. X runs fine and 2D seems accelerated but 3D is not. I thought Unichrome DRM had been merged but I don't see a kernel module for it; is there any way to turn it on?
It's not 2.6 merged and there is some essential work to be done there for the 3D before it goes in.
I'm quite happy that 2D is working; thanks to all who have made this possible. A quick note, though: the video output on this board is blurry and generally rather poor. I've tried several (Unichrome, Intel, ProSavage) and have yet to find an onboard chipset that produces reasonable video output.
The analogue side is all off chip on these things. They are used for cheap boards so you get cheap analogue parts too
Alan
"AC" == Alan Cox alan@redhat.com writes:
Should I open a bug for this?
AC> Yes.
I've opened #131403: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131403
[Unichrome DRM]
AC> It's not 2.6 merged and there is some essential work to be done AC> there for the 3D before it goes in.
I guess that's the "user can write and maybe read anywhere in system RAM" problem. Personally I don't care if the user at the console can crash the system (since they could just pull the power) but I can see why it's being kept out of the kernel. Any suggestions on how I can help test? I'm on the xorg list but I don't think that's deep enough into it.
AC> The analogue side is all off chip on these things. They are used AC> for cheap boards so you get cheap analogue parts too
I'd hope a $115 Intel D865GLC board would have reasonable output, but I have a $40 MSI board with a ProSavage chipset that looks better. I think everyone just ships crap these days. Maybe I'll have better luck with one of the Radeon IGP chipset boards.
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