Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?
My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?
Quoting Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. I haven't used it, but you may want to check out the openchrome project (http://www.openchrome.org). There is a FreeBSD port available in the ports tree under x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?
John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor, which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver. The driver works, no doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc. There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few comments I can find about it are not very encouraging. After all, even the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster. I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot on this board). But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv driver). Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB channels might be all I need. Thanks for any hints. I haven't used it, but you may want to check out the openchrome project (http://www.openchrome.org). There is a FreeBSD port available in the ports tree under x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome. Thanks, John. I wasn't sure about this port. I first tried to download it as a package and started X with the driver via (according to the documentation), but X did not find it. I then got rid of the package as well as the old via driver and installed xf86-video-openchrome as a port. It still did not work. However, studying the new error message, I decided to correct the driver to openchrome, which DID work. I must have come across some stale documentation. At any rate, I can now start X, and it responds to the Gamma line. To some extent it also works with xvidtune. Screen size and placement is not perfect, but I hope this can be improved when I have studied the caveats mentioned at the openchrome site. Things look promising now. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
