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VIA Driver Problem

Asked by Michael

Hi,
I've a problem with my video graphics driver (Chrome9 HC Integrated Graphics) built-in on my laptop. I've installed openchrome to solve the problem. And everything goes fine but the horrible is the driver doesn't support opengl. It's strange because when I use MS OS, my graphic card can show the opengl graphic smoothly. I've followed the instruction to catch this problem about xorg-driver but seems can't fix it. I wanna request something about ubuntu. How about the next release, Ubuntu gonna support this driver then a newbie like me just install the OS and happy ever after? Sounds fun. Any way, If anyone ever heard about a newbie manual tutorial to solve this case? thanks for help.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

this page should help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome

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Michael (niqmk) said : 		#2

yup, I've followed the order for install openchrome to my laptop. The graphics goin fine but not OpenGL. That's weird, becaus when I used MS, It's going smoothly

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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Michael (niqmk) said : 		#4

Does anyone can help me?

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sintacto (sintacto) said : 		#5

I have same thing here
Did you change "device" "driver" to "openchrome"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
I have and can see glxgears but it is very slow and 100% cpu
not much different than vesa driver.
type into terminal:
glxgears
glxinfo

I dont think you will be able to use compiz or play 3d games
I would like for googleearth to work dose any one have that going with open chrome driver?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#6

Hi,

Please try this openchrome installation procedure for Ubuntu 8.10:

http://weeklypedia.blogspot.com/2009/01/openchrome-ubuntu-intrepid-810.html

So first connect your network card to the wireless router using a LAN cable.

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (copy-paste each line below to the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion autoconf automake1.9 libtool
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
svn checkout http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome
cd openchrome*
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make; sudo make install
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

In section Device in the xorg.conf file, set Driver to "openchrome"

Regards,

Mark

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sintacto (sintacto) said : 		#7

thanks mark

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