Fedora 9 Openchrome drv HP w2207h Monitor was: Re: help with setting up graphics

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:

> From: Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net>
> Subject: Re: Fedora 9 Openchrome drv HP w2207h Monitor was: Re: help with setting up graphics
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:53 AM
> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:50:02 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Could you post the complete Xorg.0.log.
> > Try not to use the grep\more\less etc..
> 
> > There will be stuff useful that others more
> knowledgeable
> > (a lot more) than myself will gather from it.
> > 
> > The same with any other log post the full thing.
> 
>         I'll try. But I'm on email (Alpine 1.10) at
> the
> moment, and I'm not going to try to copy a file that
> length
> into it, page by page or screen by screen.
> 
>         Does the list accept attachments?? I can probably
> do
> that; or I can use Pan (0.132) against Gmane -- my normal
> and strongly favored way of monitoring this list -- which
> will let me paste the whole huge thing (from gedit, which
> will let me copy it all at once) smack into the text of a
> post.
> 
> >
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/20491-314293
> > -314303-314303-314303-80720291-80720356.html
> > 
> > Should be you monitor?
> 
>         That certainly seems to be the one, yes, thanks!
> But
> I've moused all over it, following every likely link,
> only
> to conclude there's no finding a driver without knowing
> your
> video card.
> 
>         So I broke down and sent an email to the guy who
> built my current machines for me, asking if he has records
> of what he put in. Stay tuned.
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
> 
> -- 

I missed your previous posts, maybe clicking real fast, but I have an integrated video in the motherboard and I use OpenChrome driver. 

[olivares at localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root at localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 11)
04:05.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)

When I installed the machine, I booted to level 5, and I tried to play a dvd and I would see lines across the screen and I have a Samsumg SyncMater 914v Flat Panel Monitor.  I tried getting the via drivers and thankfully they did not compile.  What I did to fix my situation was the following:

Change inittab:5 to 3, that is from level 5 to level 3
and then type startx.

What I noticed is that I did not see the lines that I saw when the system booted into level 5.  I played movies and did not see the bad lines that I previously saw.  This corrected the issue for me.  I also use Slax Linux on this machine and when the machine booted and logged in automatically to X, the lines appeared, but then, I booted in text mode and created a module for the OpenChrome drivers 

http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=713

I started X with startx and the lines did not appear.  Problem was solved for me.  I hope that this helps you with your problems.

Regards,

Antonio