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VIA display driver for UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 integrated graphics processors.

Description from the project page on freedesktop.org:

The Openchrome project is committed to providing and supporting fully free and Open Source drivers that take full advantage of the hardware acceleration of VIA chipsets featuring the VIA UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 integrated graphics processors.

Corresponding package in the Ubuntu repositories: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

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I have this weird issue with my monitor. How can I fix it?

I have been experiencing a few problem with my monitor HP TS-19SV even with the newly released Ubuntu 12.04 (although, this had happened before on Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04. Basically, from time to time, when I start my computer and got…
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How to install LLVMpipe?

I hear about the LLVMpipe gallium 3d state tracker that is said to be faster than software renderer. But I cannot find a good instruction from a to z that tell me how to install it. So here I am, asking you all how to install/compile LLVMpipe and…
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How to enable/activate openchrome driver?

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a PC at my work, but my graphics don't work. Some examples: my mouse is a block with some pixels, my taskbars are completely white and I see no text and no pictures. Even when I open the terminal by using the short…
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No sound after fresh install

lspci shows me this: 80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller (rev 10) I have openchrome installed (it appears installed in the software center) but I can't hear any sounds. As you can see my sound card is a VIA…
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Add VIA driver from command line prompt

I've tried upgrading a Windows XP environment to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I get the "low-graphics mode" screen that stalls. I know that error is well-documented for ATI/AMD, however this machine has a VIA Technologies K8M890CE set. Would you help me get…
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how to configure proper video-player video output for Unichrome-Pro card?

After upgrade to 12.04.1 from 10.04, all video players yield blank screen. VLC has been made to show video properly by setting its video output to "X11 (XCB)" while it was set to "XVideo (XCB)" by default. How can I do the same with Totem and…
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How to set up VIA chrome9 screen driver?

I have an old machine here with a VIA chipset. The default screen resolution is 800x600 but the monitor is a widescreen LCD monitor which is capable of much more. I've tried to install the ubuntu 10.04 VIA drivers found on their linux drivers page…
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DRM initialised but dont work at ZOTAC with VIA ZX900 gpu

I have ubuntu 32 bits. My initial problem is freeze of xorg with [ 31.514] (EE) CHROME(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:00:01.0: No such file or directory message in Xorg.0.log file xorg.conf is : Section "Device" Identifier…
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Problem with openchrome and xrandr brightness

I have a BIOSTAR P4M900-M7 FE motherboard, which has a VIA P4M900 Chrome9 chipset (yes, old, but powerful for basic usage, everything I need). The point is that I made a new installation of Ubuntu Bionic 18.04.3 (Ubuntu MATE specifically) and…
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Blank screen at login if vga isn't plugged in (openchrome driver)

I upgraded my laptop to Xubuntu 16.04. I used a generic driver for my video card with Xubuntu 14.04, that worked, but this time I tried the correct one (xserver-xorg-video-openchrome, for my VIA Chrome 9 HC VN896). It worked perfectly (when I…
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Can't boot with openchrome driver

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…
Joel Graff
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