VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory.
Questions tagged [via]
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Mouse pointer strange problem
i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square...
These are the screenshots:
I have no idea what to do to solve this…
elp
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VIA KM400 /dev/dri/card0 missing
Since a few days, X does not start anymore on my Athlon 2600+ with VIA KM400 integrated graphics running Ubuntu 18.04.
It could have been triggerd by the update of some Ubuntu packages but of course I cannot be sure. What I am sure of is that I…
jolavillette
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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…
Aikanáro
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My Ubuntu doesn't seem to be using Unity
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop. I upgraded from 10.04 several weeks ago. I noticed that it seems to be using the old GNOME 2 user interface.
I'm curious if this is because of my graphics card, which doesn't work with any graphics intensive…
ThatOtherPerson
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I have a Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V3515 laptop. Where can I get the proper drivers?
I have been using Ubuntu for several weeks now. (With some prior Linux usage.) Several programs I have used have given me this error message: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
I think the error may be caused by not having the proper…
ThatOtherPerson
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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…
Bryan
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error installing on via motherboard C3 CPU
Im working with an OEM, and we are wanting to build a CARPC, for use in an electric car.
We want to build a system similar to MiMod (mimodhp.com). Mimod is too expensive, it is a closed system, AND its based on Windows (I cant see doing that,…
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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…
user88944
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Network Manager missing after update: no connectivity
After an update and restart, I found that the network icon on the top is missing and so, I cannot connect to LAN, wifi, USB modem, nothing. Now, I am booting from a Live USB, then chrooted to my original Ubuntu partition. I tried to install wicd by…
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graphics mode on install
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 or any version from a thumb drive onto an HP t5565 thin client. The install crashes when it trys to init graphics. I've installed Linux Mint 13 by using safe mode but can not understand how to get Ubuntu to install…
Dave
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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…
Pieter Breed
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Does Ubuntu 17.10 support VIA VL805 chipset?
I own a fairly old Dell Inspiron 620s with Intel Core i3 2100. which has 8 USB 2.0 ports. I wanted to add a PCIe card that could add 2 3.0 ports with faster data transfer speed (because we live in 2018).
I'm looking forward to buy This Product,…
Sumeet Deshmukh
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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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Ubuntu 14.04 installation on via EPIA M910
Had some trouble installing 14.04 desktop on VIA EPIA-M910 with VX900 chipset. Part way through the installation the screen goes blank so you cant interact with the installer.
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