Package: xserver-xorg-video-via Version: 1:0.2.1-6 Severity: wishlist I have a P4M800 chipset and I can't get Xorg work using the 'via' driver because of the lack of support for this chipset. Because of this I can't watch videos properly because the image is displayed many seconds after the sound, which is really annoying (enabling frame dropping helps little when trying to watch dvd's), not to mention the high CPU usage. Also, the normal CPU usage of Xorg is notibly higher (I used to have a PM800 chipset), and all the applications (including games) that make use of OpenGL for direct rendering work really slow because direct rendering isn't available. VIA released the VIA IGP Framebuffer Driver (avilable at http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=20&CatID=2260&SubCatID=150 ) some time ago, which is a linux kernel module, but it is only the framebuffer driver. Also, while searching on the web I found the next page titled "Kernel Display Driver source Code Installation Guide" for Fedora Core 3/4: http://www.ubuntuusers.de/paste/475/ (the author is VIA Technologies, INC. so I guess this document is available somewhere at the VIA arena website), this document seems to explain the whole process required to achive the goal. But I couldn't find any page where it mentions under what licence the source code of the VIA FBDev module is released. I hope somebody has the time to add support for the P4M800 chipset, since I guess I'm not the only person using Debian who has the same situation; and I also think it is important to have better support for different hardware so more people can switch to Debian without having so many problems (with this I mean the fact that Debian never got to detect my video hardware correctly, I had to manually find out the right configuration). Thanks (attachment is the package information) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-a64 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-via depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdrm2 2.0.2-0.1 Userspace interface to kernel DRM ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-19 X.Org X server -- core server xserver-xorg-video-via recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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