Xorg and VIA drivers

mikz · 02-13-2006, 02:56 PM

I use a Slackware Current installation with 2.6.15. During a recent update, Xorg was upgraded from Xorg 6.7 to 6.9. After which my graphics no longer works. This is the card section from my xorg.conf

# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
ChipSet "KM400"
Card "via KM400"
Option "NoDDCValue" "yes"
EndSection

What steps are required so that Xorg 6.9 will recognize my card.?
Do I have to re-compile anything?

perfect_circle · 02-13-2006, 03:34 PM

can you post the exact error you get from Xorg when you type startx?

mikz · 02-13-2006, 03:37 PM

It does not recognise Card "via KM400".

mikz · 02-13-2006, 03:39 PM

I've just edited xorg.conf to:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

which is accepted ??

perfect_circle · 02-13-2006, 11:53 PM

I don't know. My xorg.conf is auto-altered by nvidia's driver every time I install a new driver (so, every time I actually install a new kernel, i re-install the driver), and as far as I see it commented out the vendorname and boardname options. So nowdays it just looks like this:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

with Xorg 6.9

Maybe something like:

Code:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Vidocard0"
Driver "via"
EndSection

will also work in your case.

shilo · 02-14-2006, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikz

Code:

# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
ChipSet "KM400"
Card "via KM400"
Option "NoDDCValue" "yes"
EndSection

First, I would have a look at
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/via.4.html . I don't see a "NoDDCValue:, so that is either not specific to the driver, or deprecated. Does getting rid of it work?

mikz · 02-14-2006, 03:29 AM

Thanks for the comments. Everything is now working.