Re: [Unichrome-users] Unichrome X release 24

[Phil D. <deb...@gm...>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:41:41 -0400 (EDT), Dan Morrill
<mor...@ny...> wrote:
> On Mon, August 23, 2004 7:49 am, Phil DeBecker said:
> > I suspect this is the same thing that's happened to you.  Enable vesa
> > framebuffer support in your kernel and try passing vga=791 to your
> > kernel at boot.
> 
> That was it!  Bingo, you win the prize! :)
> 
> Yeah, that got me up.  Notably, with the disable-ACPI-IRQ-steering
> hack, that got me up and with network support, with IRQs enabled in
> DRM.  Let's see if this holds......

That's not a very good "hack".  It's the first thing I tried when I
started messing with this laptop.  It sort of works, but you won't be
able to use your PCMCIA cards and I think the USB ports also get
disabled.  Again, the only thing the IRQ does for you in DRM is allow
for sync-on-vblank, so it's not a critical feature and has no impact
whatsoever on performance.  Besides, if you're not enabling DRI, it's
completely useless.

> I am still without DRI at the moment, though, but I'll poke at that later.
> (Whenever I tried to install the DRI modules -- e.g. unichrome_dri.so
> or via_dri.so from unichrome.sf.net -- I get an error about missing
> unichrome_driModuleInit or something.  Looks like xorg is searching
> for a particular init function in the DLL, which XFree86 doesn't include.
> I assume those libs are built for XF86.)

You should use the libraries from the opensource_040701.tgz archive
from the Unichrome Project.  I'm using xorg also and those libraries
work with it.

I am still trying to get a log of the xorg crash when I boot with
vga=normal.  Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to do that, as the
machine locks up hard and the screen is black.  If I do manage to get
a log, I'll post it to the list.

Phil DeBecker