Official support for user of graphics card VIA KM400 VT8378?

[Edson Eustáchio]

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. 
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>Unless that card has 3D aceleration worth using, that'd be a bit more 
>difficult.
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>>Hello,
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>>Will Fedora have offical support for graphics cards VIA KM400 VT8378 [S3
>>UniChrome] on its kernel?
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>>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?
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>>If Fedora will not support this hardware, someone knows a way for using
>>the resources of that card on Fedora?
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>>I have Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.
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>>Thanks a lot.
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>>Eustáchio
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