Fedora Users — Re: Official support for user of graphics card VIA KM400 VT8378?

It works fine with VESA generic driver, but just when resources of 3D acceleration are not required. When this is need, it does not work fine. For example, I have problems to play DVD because every work is done by CPU although I have hardware specific to do that. This happen because the VESA generic drive is not able to use the 3D resources of these cards.

So, I think I need to find a way to install this drives on my Fedora but, if possible, without change the latest official Fedora's kernel.

Moreover,
I'm using xorg-x11-6.7.0-5.

Thanks a lot, Jim.


Jim Higson wrote:

That sounds like a mobo rather than a video card. It should work with the normal vesa drivers, which are fine for just about anything 2D.

Unless that card has 3D aceleration worth using, that'd be a bit more difficult.

Hello,

Will Fedora have offical support for graphics cards VIA KM400 VT8378 [S3
UniChrome] on its kernel?

I have search on intenet and found some news about drivers for this
hardware. They require to apply a patch (http://epia.kalf.org) on the
kernel and try to install some drivers
(http://www.viaarena.com/?pageID=325) provided by the vendor, but there
is no patch to the current Fedora's Kernel and the drivers are build for
XFree, not for Xorg. A question: drivers for XFree works with Xorg?

If Fedora will not support this hardware, someone knows a way for using
the resources of that card on Fedora?

I have Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.

Thanks a lot.

Eustáchio