Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

2006-02-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Thanks Benno! 2006/2/14, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marco Calviani wrote: > > the unichrome driver became open source, but however > > googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for > > make it working > > Not many. It's the ones with troubles that are the loudes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

2006-02-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Marco Calviani wrote: > the unichrome driver became open source, but however > googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for > make it working Not many. It's the ones with troubles that are the loudest. :) Getting it to work used to be a bit complicated, as you have X and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

2006-02-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Daniel, thanks for sharing your experience. The only "problem" in getting an Nvidia or ATI video card is that they rely on closed source proprietary drivers (apart for "older" ATI card for which the xorg radeon drivers works well); on the contrary i've seen that the unichrome driver became op

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I had one of this Via cards, different than yours, it was a KM400, but they're all Unychrome family (still have it onboard, only disabled), and it was a hell of a time getting it to work, in fact, I had to get an unstable Xorg, compile some stuff myself and getting a new opengl driver to copy over

[gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

2006-02-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to buy a motherboard which uses a K8M800 chipset. Does Xorg drivers offers 2D/3D acceleration for this card? Anyone has experience with it using gentoo? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list