FYI [VIA Chrome9 VX900 HD] Linux Driver Issue - Workaround I purchased last year the VIA IPIA-M910-16 mainboard computer. It includes the VIA Chrome9 VX900 HD video chipset.
The "openchrome" xorg driver for Debian 6 series does not support the VX900 chipset and therefore falls back to use the "vesa" driver lacking the newer video acceleration support. This is fine for my use. I since upgraded to Debian 7.1.0 and the new "openchrome" xorg driver claims to support the VX900 chipset, but has bad blank-screen display problems. Here is the work-around to restore the "vesa" driver to make the display again usable. If you can boot your computer into non-graphic mode, you can create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf that will bypass the automatic selection of the "openchrome" video driver. As root, enter the following command: Xorg -configure This will create the file: xorg.conf.new Edit this file and replace "openchrome" with "vesa" and then copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now your display should work properly in vesa mode without the S3 Chrome accelerators that are giving you problems. I will try a future release to see if the S3 Chrome9 acceleration for the VX900 HD chipset has been fixed. Sincerely, Steven J. Hathaway _______________________________________________ Openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC
