Hi Kevin, After compiling and installing according to your tutorial I still have the two issues: tty Consoles and Standby/Resume do not work. So it doesn't seem to be a problem with Dylan's packages. I reported two separate bugs in Bugzilla now.
Regards, Marty On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:29:19 +0200 Marty <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks for your help. My old notebook (Amilo Li 1705) has a VIA VN896 chipset > as well. So there is some hope :-) > > I was able to install version 0.6 from Dylan's repository. It just installed > without any need of a further package. But it made things worse. > Standby-resume still didn't work, plus: graphics got garbled when switching > to a tty console (Ctrl-Alt-F1). So I went back to 0.3.3. > > Before I report a bug I would like to follow your guide to compile myself - > just to exclude Dylan's package as a root cause. > > I also was playing around with boot parameters. Their role is unclear for me. > What about "-nomodeset" for example? In some posts people say it is needed. > And what about the "viafb" kernel module? Some say it should be blacklisted. > But on my system it's anyway not loaded by default. (And if I load it by hand > it crashes my system). > > Cheers, > Marty > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:48:55 +0200 > "Kevin Brace" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Marty, > > > > Last year, I posted detailed instructions on how to compile the OpenChrome > > DDX straight from the upstream Git repository for Ubuntu based OSes. > > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2016-February/007237.html > > > > Please note that if you chose to switch to HWE (HardWare Enablement) > > version, you should not enter the following line. > > > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome > > > > The above line will possibly wreck your X.Org Server. > > You will have to figure out the appropriate version in this case, I will > > think that the following will be appropriate if you have Ubuntu 14.04.5 > > components installed. > > > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-xenial > > > > For more details, the following link explains in detail of what is going on. > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack > > > > If you are not sure, stick to the original instruction on how to build th > > dependency, which is this one. > > > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome > > > > At this point, I do not actively maintain or distribute pre-compiled > > OpenChrome DDX .deb files, but Dylan Aïssi has done so. > > > > https://launchpad.net/~dylan.a/+archive/ubuntu/xxv-openchrome > > https://launchpad.net/~dylan.a/+archive/ubuntu/xxv-openchrome-unstable > > > > Follow the instructions on the page on how to add an PPA to your particular > > system. > > I have not tested his .deb files, so do it at your own risk. > > Generally speaking, I do not recommend using Canonical supplied stock > > xserver-xorg-video-openchrome since they are very, very slow to update to > > the latest one, and furthermore, they are ridiculously stubborn when it > > comes to replacing the older broken versions like Version 0.3.3 with the > > latest release. > > I have given two of their developers my assurance that replacing older > > Version 0.3.3 with a newer one is a no brainer, but due to their update > > policies, they are not really able to replace the older buggier ones with > > the latest release. > > Regardless, I do not recommend using Version 0.3.3, 0.4, and 0.5 since > > Version 0.6 fixes many issues that exists in these versions. > > Since the standby resume issue you are having appears to be a bug, I > > recommend that you file a bug report with https://bugs.freedesktop.org. > > Last month, I did a bug triage without freedesktop.org Bugzilla, and it was > > painful to do it this way, so from now on, I will only handle it via > > freedesktop.org Bugzilla. > > Here is the official location to file a bug. > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/openchrome > > > > If they prompt you to enter User ID and password, please go create an > > account with freedesktop.org Bugzilla, activate the account, and then > > revisit the link above. > > I will give you detailed instructions on what information I am looking for. > > Just for the record, I do most development on two VN896 chipset based > > laptops (Epic 1314 and HP 2133), and standby resume works fine on Xubuntu > > 14.04. > > That being said, Epic 1314 has an issue restoring the hardware cursor on > > Lubuntu 12.04 in most cases. > > > > Regards, > > > > Kevin Brace > > The OpenChrome Project maintainer / developer > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:02:24 +0200 > > > From: Marty <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Openchrome-users] Ubuntu package? > > > Message-ID: <20170410210224.7e3ba301@AMILO-Li1705> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > > > > Dear Kevin, > > > > > > Thanks a lot for still maintaining Openchrome!!!. I am also running an > > > old notebook with VIA Chrome9 with Lubuntu 14.04 and your driver makes it > > > possible! > > > > > > Is there any chance to get a compiled package for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty > > > Tahr)? I tried to compile from the source code but got lost with missing > > > dependencies and finally crashed my system. > > > > > > (I wanted to update the driver with the hope to be able to resume from > > > Standby without garbling the graphics.) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Marty > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openchrome-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users > > Main page: http://www.openchrome.org > > Wiki: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC > _______________________________________________ > Openchrome-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users > Main page: http://www.openchrome.org > Wiki: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC _______________________________________________ Openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC
