Howto: Via Chrome9 IGP on Ubuntu Linux

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This tutorial is an updated version of the one made two years ago. For some unknown reason, that post keeps getting lots of visitors. After two years of development, the OpenChrome drivers are looking much better than the Via one’s, being the case, it’s in everyone’s best interest to use them instead of the ones provided by Via.

The steps are quite easy, and we wont use the binary packages, as those are always out of date. With the SVN version you should get a nice refresh rate for your CRT monitor and snappy 2D video for your window manager. You can check how to add 3D support later on the Ubuntu Wiki.

You should have all the compilation and build essentials installed first:

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake1.9 libtool
sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

Get the openChrome sourcecode like this:

svn checkout http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome

Change into the newly created directory

cd openchrome

Run autogen.sh with the prefix option so that the driver is being installed in the correct directory

./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr

Compile openChrome

make

Install openChrome

sudo make install

Remember to configure Xorg to use the openchrome driver:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And replace:

Driver "vesa"

with:

Driver "openchrome"

Thats it. Restart Xorg or your PC.