Video Driver S3G UniChrome

[ddu_]

Hey guys, this is my first post here and I'm hoping you can help!

Here's my situation. I've got a gateway MX3231 with a 14.1" widescreen monitor. It also has the VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP video card.

The first problem i had was the resolution. I was unsuccessful at installing the S3G Driver (which is what i hope you guys can help me with) so I found a solution to force VESA to do 1280x768:

Add the following to your Monitor Section of your xorg.conf file:

ModeLine "1280x768" 87.04 1280 1376 1488 1800 768 771 777 806

Now that I'm running at 1280x768, I want to continue to try to install the correct video driver. I downloaded this driver (CN700, as lspci says):


http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...0&SubCatID=158

To install, since it isn't distro specific (source?), I use the readme and do the following:

Make sure you have the kernel sources installed in /usr/src/. For example, if your kernel version is 2.4.18-3, then there would be /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3 in your system.
Copy viafb to any directory, and then following below steps:
Step 1: change to viafb directory
# cd viafb/
Step 2: Clear all object file.
# make clean
Step 3: Make source code
# make
Note that if no any error, this step will be produced an object file "viafb.o".
Step 4: Install viafb.o framebuffer driver
# make install

Then i do a modprobe viafb. When I do so, I notice in lsmod these two lines addded:
viafb 116800 0 (unused)
fbgen 2884 0 [viafb]

Now, I edit my xorg.conf file and change the driver from vesa to via
so it looks like this:

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"
Identifier "VESA Framebuffer"
Driver "via"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


Now, when I do a startx I get a fatal server error: No Screen Found
Any idea where to go from here? I'm using Slack11. Thanks in advance!

[#!/bin/bash]

Post the results of this:
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Also I wonder why you changed your xorg.conf to use via driver if the driver you built was viafb?

[ddu_]

First off, hi, and thanks for replying.

I tried like you suggested and used viafb...here is the error I recieve (using grep EE):

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module "viafb" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

When I use via, I get this error (using grep EE):

	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) No devices detected.

[azazelka]

didn't work=(

[ddu_]

Did it not work because I did something wrong? Or it's a bad driver?