Official support for user of graphics card VIA KM400 VT8378?

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:55:40AM -0300, Edson Eustáchio wrote:
...> 
> 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?

Xorg is built from XFree prior to a copyright change.
So at one point in time the code was the same.

It should be possible to patch the Xorg code.
Look for the file and at the context.

> 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.

You might search bugzilla to see if this is a known problem
with a known fix.  

If there is no open bug you might consider filing a bug that
identifies the hardware and lets the keeper of the bits that matter to
you know that there is an update.

I gave it a glance and there is a FC1 package.... 
so FC2 should be possible.


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