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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Well, my new box has arrived, and everything is working, except for DRI. You see, I tried using the "common" and "via" snapshots from dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots, as I had done when I had Prosavage onboard video, but it screwed up... When I started X with DRI enabled after installing the drivers, my monitor immediately went into power-save mode, and my system became unresponsive. Turning off DPMS support, both in the BIOS and in xorg.conf, did not alleviate the situation. Can someone tell me what the heck happened?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Whoops, forgot to post my xorg.conf. Here it is:

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "ServerLayout"

# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc101"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option        "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
 # Very conservative. May flicker.
#    VertRefresh  50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.
    #  Default modes distilled from
    #      "VESA and Industry Standards and Guide for Computer Display Monitor
    #       Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998.
    #  $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/vesamodes,v 1.4 1999/11/18 16:52:17 tsi Exp $
    # 640x350 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
 ### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
    HorizSync    31.5 - 82.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
    Modeline "1280x1024"  138.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1069 -HSync +Vsync
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
#    HorizSync    28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "via"
   Option      "DisableIRQ"
   Option      "EnableAGPDMA"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth  24   
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

afaik... you will need the savage driver for this chipset, dri is still experimental on this card

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

The Savage driver will let me use DRI? :?

Gullible Jones

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Okay, checked the Savage driver that comes with XOrg 6.8.2... of course it doesn't work with Unichrome, gives the "no screens" error. I'll see where I can get with the savage snapshot from freedesktop.org though.

SleepyDog

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Registered: 2004-10-15

Posts: 114

Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

I have Unichrome onboard graphics as well. I never got it to work, however, and now I have a mid-range nvidia card. It was such a relief when everything just worked.

However, if that's not an option for you, you might want to look at the epia kernel patches at http://www.epiawiki.org/

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

"Chipset 'KM400' not valid for this driver..." So that's my problem. :evil: If the drivers from unichrome.sf.net support KM400, then why the hell don't freedesktop.org's snapshots?

Ah well, looks like I must follow the unichrome.sf.net instructions. Jesus, I can't wait until XOrg 7.0 final comes out... Then people won't have to compile the whole damn thing just to make a single driver. Yay for modularization.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Okay, tried again with snapshots from http://myth.ivor.org/unichrome... X started fine, but very politely refused to see the 3D drivers. Will try once again with the stuff directly from unichrome.sf.net. If that doesn't work, I've no idea what I'll do. :evil:

(I have one extra video card, an ATI Rage 128, but it won't fit in this new box's oddball AGP slot, even though this machine is AGP 1x/2x/4x compatible. Not a bloody chance of getting another video card.)

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Wait a minute... VIA has quite up-to-date proprietary drivers available on their website! :shock: Anyone know how good these are?

Gullible Jones

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Got it, woot!

Edit: Wow, this Unichrome stuff kicks arse. To think it's considered minimal... :shock: Damn, I have been in the world of legacy machines for way, way too long.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

Okay, got it with the freedesktop.org snapshots. Will post something on it later... It's actually a lot less iffy than Savage.

MaceM

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From: Austria

Registered: 2003-11-26

Posts: 47

Re: More DRI troubles... with Unichrome!

hi

i was struggling with my km400 board and unichrome for some time and couldn't get it to work.

i'd be very glad if you could post some guidelines on how you got it to work.

thx