So I'm trying to get an older system that has an integrated VIA graphics chipset. It's supported directly by the openchrome driver, which I installed from the repo.
The driver requires setting up xorg.conf, which I did following the manpage instructions
However, when it boots the desktop shows up and becomes garbled, then returns shortly thereafter. I think what' happening is the driver is crashing and it's defaulting to the VESA driver, as that's what's loaded when I call lshw from the commandline.
Anyway, I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting. I looked through the syslog, but nothing stood out to me.
I have a 32-but linux install and I've checked Xorg.0.log for errors and noted:
[drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:01:00.0: No such file or directory
dmesg returns the following:
pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: bridge control possible
then later:
pci 0000:01:00.0: Video device with shadowed ROM at [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff]
So the PCI address is valid...
