VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video

[m3s_4ev3r]

Hello, I have a VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video chipset on my Fujitsu Siemnes La1207 Laptop.

I have searched and searched for a driver and found nothing.
The purpose is to be able to change resolution and enable the hardware support so that I can use compiz.
I have Fedora 8 and I have installed openchrome and nothing worked so far. Does anyoen has any idea on where could I find a valid driver OR make compiz work on my setup.
Thanks in Advance, Arthur.

EDIT: I tried openchrome but I get a blank screen... i am completely clueless. I just want to change my resolution and if possible make compiz work, or at least some rendering to play movies and so on.

[m3s_4ev3r]

Here xorg.conf:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg
xorg-backup.conf               xorg.conf~
xorg.conf                      xorg.conf.livna-config-backup
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver          "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[root@localhost ~]#

and here's /sbin/lspci:

root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 01)
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
[root@localhost ~]#

Trying to make it work I installed some other packages, but now i am using vesa, as openchrome isn't working.

I tried VIA ARENA, no driver found, ultimately i found some driver, but it was for another kernel(and i m not even sure that it was for my exact chipset)

[m3s_4ev3r]

Hurray! I found a tutorial!!!
http://www.hombrepac.com.ar/software...untu-edgy-610/

The sad thing is that is made for Ubuntu, some parts need adapting, it didn't worked in my case, so if someone can transcribe it in fedora style(I could replace apt-get with yum but that's not all of it, there's that build-essential and build-dep command which I don't know how they are in fedora) I will be greatfull, me and others who have UniChrome/Chrome9 Chipsets(about 15 models), and if it works I will make a tutorial for this too(i'm talking like I made another one.... i didn't, but I'm about to xD, the ndiswrapper issue).

FriedChip, where are you, your expertise is needed xD

[FriedChips]

Unfortunately, I am out of town til tomorrow, at my mom's house. She doesn't have fedora on her machine, she uses Ubuntu. When I get home tomorrow I will try and follow the tutorial to build the driver on my machine. If I am successful I will post some instructions here.

[m3s_4ev3r]

OK FriedChips, thanks in advance

[FriedChips]

Sorry, I haven't even had a chance to try anything yet. My power supply blew out this weekeend... Lucky for me I have a new computer in the mail already.

[crispy_chunks]

Originally Posted by FriedChips

Sorry, I haven't even had a chance to try anything yet. My power supply blew out this weekeend... Lucky for me I have a new computer in the mail already.

I am also eagerly awaiting this one!

Will it enable 3d acceleration? My dad probably want google earth to run a bit more smoothly (building a new machine for him).

Thanks in advance!

[FriedChips]

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...0&SubCatID=164

Maybe this page can help?

[takkies]

Hi all, I am very new to fedora 11 and need some help to get my via graphic drivers installed.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks