[gutsy] Unmet dependencies while installing xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

[jeroenl]

s apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome: Depends: libviaxvmc1 (= 0.2.6+svn357-0ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
                                 Depends: libviaxvmcpro1 (= 0.2.6+svn357-0ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Davide R (gatewayasteroid) (gatewayasteroid)]

I had the same, and I solved installing

libviaxvmc1
libviaxvmcpro1

by hand.

[Oliver Maunder (ollym)]

There's also a problem with the description for this package. It says:

"This driver is originally shipped to be loaded as 'via' on xorg.conf, but this
 package renames it to 'openchrome', so it doesn't conflicts with the other VIA
 driver already available on Ubuntu."

However, the driver hasn't been renamed - the files installed are:
  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.la
  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so

Also the package is marked as conflicting with and replacing xserver-xorg-video-via and xserver-xorg-video-unichrome.

Either
    a) the description should be changed
or b) the driver should be renamed to openchrome, and the package shouldn't conflict with the other via drivers.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hardy now has 0.3.0 which renamed the driver and the libraries.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

So, just to be clear, the actual workaround is to:
sudo apt-get install libviaxvmc1 libviaxvmcpro1 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

[Libor Šedivý (liborse)]

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

It does not work for me. Sorry.

Can I use package for Hardy? Is it safe? I need OpenChrome and no VESA! :-)

[Anirudh (anirude-t)]

Since it says
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome: Depends: libviaxvmc1 (= 0.2.6+svn357-0ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
                                 Depends: libviaxvmcpro1 (= 0.2.6+svn357-0ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

i assumed libviaxvmc1 depends on libviaxvmcpro1. so i did this command:

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

and it worked.

Then u have to edit your xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). scroll down to the Video section. Under Section "Device", under "Generic Video Card":
you need to change "vesa" to "via".

the changes wont happen until u restart the x server. to do this, you need to log out, then press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at the login screen. if everything worked, the login screen will load up again and all is normal, but if it doesnt, then ur not gonna have pretty interface to fix it. u need to login to a console, go back and edit the xorg.conf file and change the driver back to "vesa" to get it back to where it was.

[Libor Šedivý (liborse)]

Wow, it works for me and it seems stable :-). Thanks a lot! In Hardy it works very very unstable, but this is another bug.

I used "sudo apt-get install libviaxvmcpro1 libviaxvmc1 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome"

and in xorg.conf I changed values via to vesa, but ONLY driver option, not board ;). My xorg.conf is in attachment.

[Libor Šedivý (liborse)]

Sorry, but when I firstime wrote glxgears, values was cca 900 FPS, but after restart see I this:

glxgears
2405 frames in 5.0 seconds = 480.483 FPS
2140 frames in 5.1 seconds = 419.125 FPS
2272 frames in 5.0 seconds = 453.666 FPS

but direct rendering is ON... I added one swcursor option, does it cause this problem?

[Libor Šedivý (liborse)]

No it is not a problem... Maybe in card ram?

[VereVa (vereva)]

xserver-xorg-video-openchrome from repositories hardy is not work in my VN800
I have to install the driver manually, as before.