Bug#814682: Updated OpenChrome driver available
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
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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 <debian-x@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
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