Everex NC 1502NC P4M900

Submitted by Scott

Assigned to Kevin Brace @kevinbrace

Link to original bug (#106298)

Description

Kevin,

First off, Thanks for your work on this.

On an Everex Via C7-D stepnote w/ P4M900 graphics, the openchrome drivers fails to load.

Pertinent lspci "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 9 Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512M] Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0 "

The following attachments concern a driver built with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-openchrome-git/ that was updated to: "# Maintainer: Peter Mattern <pmattern at arcor dot de>

Contributor: Koscheev "Ashen" Mikhail <fresh19991 at yandex dot ru>

Contributor: Pascal "hardfalcon" Ernster <aur at hardfalcon dot net>

Contributor: Marcel Dykstra <marcel dot dykstra at gmail dot com>

_pkgname=xf86-video-openchrome pkgname=$_pkgname-git pkgver=xf86.video.0.6.0.374.g3c882cf "

In Xorg.0.log the openchome module is unloaded after " [ 4717.773] (II) LoadModule: "openchrome" [ 4717.784] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so [ 4717.785] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so: undefined symbol: vgaHWFreeHWRec [ 4717.786] (II) UnloadModule: "openchrome" [ 4717.786] (II) Unloading openchrome "

I also tried Debian 9.4 following the recent blog advice.

Version: git