Re: State of Unichrome support

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:56:51PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> system-config-display doesn't recognize the chipset at all and
> suggests the VESA driver.  Should I open a bug for this?

Yes.

> I edited xorg.conf and set it straight.  X runs fine and 2D seems
> accelerated but 3D is not.  I thought Unichrome DRM had been merged
> but I don't see a kernel module for it; is there any way to turn it
> on?

It's not 2.6 merged and there is some essential work to be done there
for the 3D before it goes in.

> I'm quite happy that 2D is working; thanks to all who have made this
> possible.  A quick note, though: the video output on this board is
> blurry and generally rather poor.  I've tried several (Unichrome,
> Intel, ProSavage) and have yet to find an onboard chipset that
> produces reasonable video output.

The analogue side is all off chip on these things. They are used for cheap
boards so you get cheap analogue parts too

Alan