State of Unichrome support
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)
- J<