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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 214

video driver acts funny after update

Hi people,

I just did a pacman -Syu, but now the video driver acts funny. From time to time it displays stuff correctly, but sometimes it goes weird. Look at this screenshot of OpenOffice and the gimp. Everything is messed up, even the fluxbox menu:

What exactly happened? I updated the system, and then X didnt start. For some reason I had to change the video driver in xorg.conf from "via" to "openchrome". Then it worked, but now these things happens. Any ideas what it is?

Running Kernel 2.6.23.8-1 (not the latest because I have some custom modules).  My video card:

output of lspci:
        00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM880 Host Bridge
        01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02)
output of Xorg.0.log
        (--) VIA(0): Chipset: "PM800/PM880/CN400"
output of dmesg
        agpgart: Detected VIA PM800/PN800/PM880/PN880 chipset
        agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
output of xf86-video-unichrome
        The VT3118 chip is not supported
identification from the website
        VIA PN800 DDR-SDRAM based chipset featuring the VIA UniChrome Pro IGP graphics core.

anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 214

Re: video driver acts funny after update

Nobody has an idea?
I tried to replace the openchrome driver with the xf86-video-unichrome and with xf86-video-via. They both do not work; I get  a black screen instead.
Is there any possibility of downloading an older version of the openchrome archlinux package?

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 298

Re: video driver acts funny after update

I have an Nvidia card so I can't help you with the driver issue specifically but if you do need to downgrade a package...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
There's a list of mirrors with older packages there..

anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 214

Re: video driver acts funny after update

Well, I found the old version (openchrome-20070903-2.pkg.tar.gz), installed it and used it. It works fine again.
Unfortunately the new version (openchrome-0.2.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz) does not function properly, just as the openchrome-experimental and openchrome-svn from http://aur.archlinux.org.
I guess I should have added this topic to the Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues but I forgot that.

Anyhow, I added openchrome to IgnorePkg in pacman.conf so I dont get this problem again; this is unfortunately not a structural solution, but we'll see.

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 298

Re: video driver acts funny after update

File a bug.. http://bugs.archlinux.org/

briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: video driver acts funny after update

Same here, P4M800Pro (in Amilo Pro V2055). Maybe this bug and workaround is related? Did not try, though; I'd rather stick with older driver.

Last edited by briest (2008-01-16 23:28:22)