Comment 50 for bug 43154
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| Julia (julia-whalespout) wrote Re: computer freezes with some applications using 3D | #50 |
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I have related problems with a VIA K8N800 on my Acer Aspire 1522 laptop. I can't get a fully functioning driver in Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or SUSE. I've tried Edgy and Feisty in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I've tried compiling drivers straight from VIA, as well as other Unichrome and Openchrome drivers. This video adapter works flawlessly in Windows, so it's not the hardware.
First I tried like crazy to get an extended desktop going on an external monitor, and finally gave up. Just now I tried to get some applications going in Wine, but received the following error: libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x46
Of course Google Earth doesn't work, or anything else that requires 3D.
We should be aware that this is not really an Ubuntu problem, but a VIA problem. As I understand it, VIA doesn't release fully functional drivers for Linux, nor apparently do they release the necessary information for others to do so. Perhaps they would respond with enough pressure from users, but I don't know.
Perhaps something could move forward at Openchrome?
If anybody knows of any progress on this, or has gotten any response from someone who might help, would you post here? Since I can't use Linux to get my work done, and can't afford a different computer, I'm headed back to Windows - for now.