Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Version: 1:0.3.3-2 The current The OpenChrome provided in Debian causes an Xserver crash on VIA P4M900 chipset. Though its a less popular chipset, its still used in production for lower end systems, like Netbooks and POS systems.
The OpenChrome driver is provided in xserver-xorg-video-openchrome. An updated version of the OpenChrome driver is available from the freedesktop.org folks, but it is not available in Unstable. The driver is installed at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so. For the freedesktop.org announcement and instruction for obtaining the updated driver, see "Getting ready to release OpenChrome Version 0.3.4", https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2016-February/007234.html. Related freedesktop.org and downstream bugs due to the driver: * "Unknown Card-Ids (3371|1019|2125), Chipset: P4M900/VN896/CN896 [and Xserver crash]", http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94130 * "Light Display Manager fails to load [due to Xserver crash]", http://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1540774 Also see the following on the debian-x mailing list: * "Freedesktop and OpenChrome Version 0.3.4", http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2016/02/msg00114.html ======================================== debian-unstable:/# apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Version: 1:0.3.3-2 Installed-Size: 546 Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debia...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Provides: xorg-driver-video Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxext6, libxv1, libxvmc1, xorg-video-abi-20, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.17.99.902) Description-en: X.Org X server -- VIA display driver OpenChrome is a project for the development of free and open-source drivers for the VIA UniChrome video chipsets. . Originally called the 'snapshot' release, since it was a snapshot of an experimental branch of the unichrome cvs code, this is a continued development of the open source unichrome driver (from http://unichrome.sf.net) which also incorporates support for the unichrome-pro chipsets. . Support for hardware acceleration (XvMC) for all chipsets has subsequently been ripped out of the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore your only option if you wish to make use of the acceleration features of your VIA chip with free and open-source drivers is to use this version of the driver. Description-md5: 11d4a7275218ad33ccc6479463963d83 Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Openchrome/ Tag: hardware::video, implemented-in::c, role::plugin, use::driver Section: x11 Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome_0.3.3-2_amd64.deb Size: 199654 MD5sum: ff4710469045b8e878164c3f204557fe SHA1: d142e843e64059da6581c1c0615eba5046c31cb8 SHA256: 96a60c621021a2f3924e371c7be395eb274bb9725362cd5539fe74b61d3be0cf