The problem with the unichrome is that stock xorg identifies it (correctly) as a via, but it does not support it's specific chipset. The unichrome.sf.net <http://unichrome.sf.net> project has patches for XF86 and Xorg that fix this, but you will have to recompile xorg for it to work. It should work, but you won't have any hardware acceleration, as that relies on a drm linux kernel module. However, I haven't tried it with obsd, YMMV. You may have a tough time getting support from the unichrome guys, or the obsd X maintainer, but I do not speak for them. I'd attempt it on my laptop (averatec 3200), but due to other hardware problems, it's currently out of condition.
Never hurts to try though. ;) On 9/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > my laptop died in the most horrible way (it fell off from the desk ...) > and I > had to replaced it so i bought a low price workstation. It came with an > integrated (*ugh*) via S3 unichrome chipset that is recognized by openbsd > at > boot time. I tried starting an X session but it just hangs until i log > into > another tty and kill the process, no error in Xorg's logfile ... > > i've done some googling and found out that: > > - some people reported that they have a working via S3 Unichrome under > OpenBSD > on their laptop/desktop station, but none explained wether it was only > recognized or if it was also useable with X. > > - there seems to be a Unichrome project that adds support for the chipset, > but > it seems like it's for Linux only (i'll investigate this when i get some > sleep). > > Please tell me that someone has X working with it and that I don't have to > code > in console for the months to come ... > > thanks ;) > > -- > strlcat,strlcpy: > "This is horribly inefficient BSD crap. [...] This is why you use:" > *((char *) memcpy (dst, src, n)) = '\0'; > -- Ulrich Drepper, Linux style "efficiency" ;) > > -- Abe Al-Saleh And then came the Apocolypse. It actually wasn't that bad, everyone got the day off and there were barbeques all around.
