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achim

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 9

openchrome issues

hello guys,
i have some issues with the openchrome driver version 0.2.903-1 from the extra repo
first i have to choose the right screen resolution manually
second there is no mouse cursour until I enable the Option "SWCursor" in the device section (xorg.conf)

i found the solution here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465596

there are workarounds for both issues, but since I'm using  Option "SWCursor" the screen flickers all the time

maybe a driverupdate to  0.2.903-3 will help, because this update fixed all issues mentioned above

therefore my question is:
is an update to 0.2.903-3 planned?

thanks!
achim

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HP 2133
Chrome 9 HC CN896/VN896/P4M900

Spy

Member

Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 78

Re: openchrome issues

Use openchrome from SVN it's a lot better, also you can use EXA accelleration method now:

install subversion and:

mkdir openchrome
cd openchrome
svn co http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk
cd trunk
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
make install (as root)

then edit your xorg.conf change from vesa to openchrome and add:

Option AccelMethod "exa"
Option EnableAGPDMA "true"
Option MigrationHeuristic "greedy"
Option ExaScratchSize "8192"

if any problems with KDE4 add:
Option ExaNoComposite "true"

give me feedback

Last edited by Spy (2009-05-01 20:37:04)

jfca283

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 177

Re: openchrome issues

what does it do EXA?
i installed in order to watch videos correctly with no green lines
but...can i use like output with mplayer?
i'm lost...

sva_h4cky0

Member

From: Surabaya, Indonesia

Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 110

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Re: openchrome issues

@ Spy

hy,

i just install openchrome-svn last day, unfortunately it doesnt work well.
so far it fail to start X when i add these line;

Option AccelMethod "exa"
Option EnableAGPDMA "true"
Option MigrationHeuristic "greedy"
Option ExaScratchSize "8192"

so remove them, it able to start kde4. but when im playing movie, X crash.
i give up, and downgrade to openchrome from arch official repos.

oh btw im using via vn896, cu

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