[gutsy] When Driver in xorg.conf is set to "openchrome" X fails to start. Changing it manually to "via" works.

[jeroenl]

Binary package hint: xorg

In the kde systemsettings (guidance) you can detect and set the video card. My VT8378 on board VIA card is detected as OpenChrome and the driver "openchrome" is selected. When changing e.g. the resolution, it will recreate a new xorg.conf and set the option "Driver" under the "Section "Device"" to "openchrome".

When restarting X openchrome cannot be found, so X fails to start. When manually changing the option "Driver" to "via" X will start.

There is a xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package, but it is not installed. Right now I can't even install it, see bug #145279 . On the other hand in Feisty I had it installed, but it still want you to use the driver with the name via. I can imagine that, because it is doing a rename according to the package-description.

Please fix this.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I saw that I reported a long time ago Bug #68186 ; but nothing was done with it. Please consider this bug-report as the current one.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

I think the main problem is that this package is not in "main" repository, therefore it cannot be installed by default. Proper solution would be that Display config would offer installing appropriate package if not installed, but this would be new feature request.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

To install the driver, do:

sudo apt-get install libviaxvmc1 libviaxvmcpro1 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Displayconfig is unmaintained and nonexistent in Intrepid, so this won't be fixed.