Trying to figure out proper X driver for the Averatec 3700 laptop

djuhl30 · 03-19-2006, 02:14 AM

I have a Averatec 3700 laptop. The documentation says it has a S3 Unichrome pro VGA card. I believe this is the "via" driver for X, but it fails to work and I must use the "vesa" instead. MPlayer will only play dvd's in a small screen. Everything else does full screen. Maybe I can't get full, but I had to check with other people to see if it can be achieved.

Dave

RobertP · 03-19-2006, 09:50 PM

Type
lspci
on the command line and see what your kernel found at boot.

This URL might be useful:

http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

You will need to find a binary package for the driver or compile the source yourself.

Besides vesa, vga or svga may help.

You may be able to get useful information from the logfile for X:
/var/log/XF...

djuhl30 · 03-24-2006, 01:19 PM

Been there, and too confused to done that. I'll prolly have to compile Xorg to compile the driver code there...