On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 01:03 +0200, Xavier Bachelot wrote: > Andrew Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently purchased an EC900B which was the cheapest PC in the shop > > (and the only one sold with Linux). > > > > This box is built entirely from Via chips and the pre-installed Mandriva > > Linux has a proprietary driver for the VX800 apparently written > > specifically for Guillemot-Hercules. > > > > Its display is 1024x600. > > > > All my other PCs run Fedora so the first thing I tried (and failed) to > > do was install Fedora, which did not support the VX800. > > > > I verified this morning that Fedora 12 Beta also does not support this > > hardware so I built openchrome 0.2.904 on an up-to-date Fedora 11 Live > > USB key, but that didn't work either. > > > > It's like an old television that cannot synch - it looks like the > > correct display might be there but it's sliding across the screen so > > quickly it's hard to tell. > > > > Full descriptions of the hardware and Xorg.0.log are in the attached > > file. > > > > Extract from Xorg.0.log: > > (EE) CHROME(0): Unknown Card-Ids (1122|1106|3349), Chipset: VX800; > > please report to [email protected] > > > > If there is anything I can do to help you support this hardware (or if > > it looks like I haven't installed it correctly) please let me know. > > > > Thanks... > > > I've added the missing pci id in trunk revision 812. You can either > update the driver or add the following line to the Device section of > your xorg conf : > Option "ForcePanel" > > Regards, > Xavier > >
Xavier, Thanks - Option "ForcePanel" "true" worked perfectly. I use this live USB key with lots of different computers so I would prefer not to have to remember to rename different versions of xorg.conf depending on hardware. I will try to build revision 812 and remove xorg.conf in the next day or two.and let you know how it goes Thanks for the rapid response Andy _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
