Fortunately, Via released a binary driver for all Unichrome II boards (see the Via Linux portal) for Ubuntu Hardy. This one works fine but still is not as stable as the vesa driver. Generally speaking, there is no stable/perfect driver for the recent Via chipsets - the your luck with the one I have mentioned - it is the best I have seen so far.
Hopefully this situation will change when Via fully releases the specs for their hardware to the opensource community. Ondrej Tim Jackson wrote: > Horst Prote wrote: > >> Tim Jackson wrote: >> > Any idea about where to >> > find a newer via binary that might work with ltsp 4.2. I don't think >> > that it would be easy to try to take a driver for the newer Xorg >> > structure and backport it what was used for the 4.2 ltsp. Any thoughts >> > on that? >> No, sorry. Never did anything like this. >> So, if I were in your stead I would see two alternatives: >> - use the vesa driver >> - switch to LTSP-5 :-) >> >> Horst >> >> >> >> > Yes, the vesa driver works to a degree. Just as it says Slow, not > taking advantage of any memory on the chip. > Yes if it was just me I would see how newest Ubuntu with LTSP 5 runs it > but I am constrained by needed to stay with 4.2 for now. > Thanks > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
