Being testing x11-driver-video-openchrome-0.2.904-1pclos2010

[melodie]

Hi,

I can't post this at the mailing list because I am not using my own machine, but a laptop from a friend, with a Pclos Openbox Bonsai on a Live USB persistant install.

The machine:

# lshw
localhost                
    description: Ordinateur Bloc-notes
    produit: AMILO La1703 ()
    fabriquant: FUJITSU SIEMENS
    version: 1.0
    numéro de série: AAAA074580
    bits: 32 bits
    fonctionnalités: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook cpus=1 frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled uuid=4F654FC0-F48C-11DB-A70E-00A0D1C58416
  *-core
       description: Carte mère
       produit: E25
       fabriquant: Inventec
       identifiant matériel: 0
       version: Rev 01
       numéro de série: 01
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          fabriquant: Phoenix
          identifiant matériel: 0
          version: 8.8-0023-M008
          date: 02/11/2009
          taille: 96KiB
          fonctionnalités: pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect acpi usb ls120boot zipboot ieee1394boot smartbattery biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          produit: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3500+
          fabriquant: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
          identifiant matériel: 4
          information bus: cpu@0
          version: 15.12.2
          emplacement: Socket M2/S1G1
          taille: 1800MHz
          capacité: 4GHz
          bits: 64 bits
          horloge: 200MHz
          fonctionnalités: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             identifiant matériel: 5
             emplacement: L1 Cache
             taille: 128KiB
             fonctionnalités: asynchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             identifiant matériel: 6
             emplacement: L2 Cache
             taille: 512KiB
             capacité: 1MiB
             fonctionnalités: synchronous external write-through
     *-memory
          description: Mémoire Système
          identifiant matériel: 14
          emplacement: Carte mère
          taille: 512MiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DRAM Synchrone
             identifiant matériel: 0
             emplacement: S1
             taille: 512MiB
             bits: 64 bits
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DRAM [vide]
             identifiant matériel: 1
             emplacement: S2

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family   : 15
model      : 76
model name   : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3500+
stepping   : 2
cpu MHz      : 1800.000
cache size   : 512 KB
fdiv_bug   : no
hlt_bug      : no
f00f_bug   : no
coma_bug   : no
fpu      : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level   : 1
wp      : yes
flags      : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy
bogomips   : 3600.03
clflush size   : 64
cache_alignment   : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

And THE graphic card :

# lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9] (rev 01)

So far the result is good. All works well, the videos (on youtube) are ok...

The machine works fine.

I have now being using it for more than one hour, all is very fluid and responsive, although it's not a top brand and model.

Regards,
Mélodie

[PsynoKhi0]

Hi,
Have you by any chance been able to install VIA's own drivers from source?

[melodie]

Hi,

It's PCLinuxOS here, not Slackware ! You might have mistaken ?  

[PsynoKhi0]

Hi,

It's PCLinuxOS here, not Slackware ! You might have mistaken ?  

Hmpf! That's the Advanced Users Section and you put together the Openbox respin...

[melodie]

I was supposed to answer to the testers mailing list, but I could not at that moment, not being in a machine of mine, with my password for access to webmail or my mail client for access to the messages. This is why I came here. The purpose was to test a driver that Texstar had freshly packaged and made available at the testing repository.

At PCLinuxOS, we try to avoid installing and using self-compiled applications as much as possible, but use the ones provided by the packagers.

[PsynoKhi0]

Ok I thought you were a packager yourself, my bad!

[melodie]

Ok I thought you were a packager yourself, my bad!

No problem. I thought you were a beginner or a user coming from any other distro, used to try any source package just to see "what it does". I sometimes compile sources in my machine, for different needs, but I avoid having hand installed packages if I can have the same under the shape of the package, and as you noticed, I don't make packages.