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DingbatCA
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 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: Via UniChrome Pro IGP, CN700 "How to" |
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Spent the better part of a day trying to get xorg with via cn700 driver to work. Here it the "how to"
Turns out to be a problem with the current version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-via, in this case 0.2.2. Spent allot of time trying to get past the error:
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Fatal server error:
no screens found
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In truth that is only the tail end of the error. If you dig into the Xorg.0.log, you will find much more helpful clues.
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(II) VIA: driver for VIA chipsets: CLE266, KM400/KN400, K8M800,
PM800/PM880/CN400
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
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The driver is to old and does not support the CN700 chipset. As much as I hate using custom drivers, we have to go to via.com.tw to get the source code.
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=25&CatID=2580&SubCatID=158
Download the package into /tmp and unzip, then extract the big one, CLE266...tgz
Head into the newly created dir, and go into source. From here compile the driver with the built in tool. And choose you correct release, in my case x86, and the "1. VIA C3-2(C5N/C5P), C7/C7D/C7M/Eden, Intel Pentium 2/3/4(x86)"
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tar -xvzf CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c.tgz
cd CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/
./makedriver
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After that is done, you may see and error looking something like this.
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(cd .libs && rm -f via_drv.la && ln -s ../via_drv.la via_drv.la)
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/via/X11R7/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/via/X11R7'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/via/X11R7'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/via/X11R7'
cp: cannot stat `via_drv.o': No such file or directory
-------- Complete to make & copy driver --------
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Dont worry, the driver compiled, it just did not install correctly. We have to do that step manually.
The driver is hidden, to a point, so we must find it. After we have the new driver, it is time to backup the old driver and install the new one.
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v21g src # pwd
/tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src
v21g src # find . | grep via_drv.so
./via/X11R7/src/.libs/via_drv.so (Path to new driver)
v21g src # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
v21g drivers # mv via_drv.so via_drv.so.orig (backing up the old driver)
v21g drivers # cp /tmp/CLE266CN400CN-CX700CN800XORG40072-kernel-src_20061226c/src/via/X11R7/src/.libs/via_drv.so . (Copy over the new driver)
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New driver installed. If your current xorg.conf has a "Driver "via"" line, it may work. But if you have been fighting with this for some time and need a clean xorg.conf. Try the one below.
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "xtrap"
Load "GLcore"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x680"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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