On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:56:13PM +0100, Torsten Crass wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg > Version: 1:7.5+1 > Severity: important > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > After a recent 'aptitude full-upgrade', our crt-based PAL TV, which is > hooked up to our VIA M10K-based HTPC through the S-Video connector, > exhibits heavy flickering once X comes up (no flickering when switching > to console). When we first encountered this problem, > xserver-xorg-video-openchrome was updated to version 1:0.2.904+svn812-1. > (Unfortunately, I don't know which version was previously installed. Or > is there a way to reconstruct a log of installed versions?) > > During the latest upgrade, xserver-xorg-video-openchrome got uninstalled > since it obviously conflicted with the newly installed > xserver-xorg-video-5 package. Funny enough, the openchrome driver still > gets loaded, as can be seen from the Xorg log shown below. (Perhaps some > openchrome stuff is still sitting around since the package got removed, > not purged? Anyway, the fact that xserver-xorg-video-openchrome is > 'officially' uninstalled on my system is the reason why I submit this > bug to xserver-xorg, not to the driver package.) > > Please apologize my messy xorg.conf -- it just has grown from our first > attempts to build a HTPC some five years ago to its current state... > BTW, it's the "TV" ServerLayout that usually gets used. Regarding video > modes, commenting out all lines in the "Monitor" "TV" section and > leaving everything to the pre-defined '720x576something' modes didn't > make any difference -- we have flickering with all of them. > > A similar bug report has already been sumitted to the openchrome project > (http://www.openchrome.org/trac/ticket/342), but since there has been > little activity on this issue since about 4 weeks, I wonder whether it > was possible to revert to a previous openchrome revision in Debian in > order to restore TV out functionality? After all, HTPCs are one of the > main application fields of VIA's Apollo chips, aren't they? > > Best regards -- > > tcrass
You could use my unichrome git tree, you can dpkg-buildpackage it. git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~libv/xf86-video-unichrome Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
