[agisman]

Thanks to twoofseven for recommended help in this forum.

I wanted to mention one caveat about using the Unichrome drivers from VIA's Linux page. I still have an open thread elsewhere that no one seems to comment on and it's likely you will soon be in the same boat.

When installing VIA's Unichrome drivers 83.40692, it reverts to an old version of MESA (6.5.1). This MESA set is from September 2006. It is now up to 7.0.3. Before you install the Unichrome drivers, run glxinfo and check which version of Mesa is installed. On most systems you probably see v7.0.3rc-2. Then install the Unichrome driver and check again to see 6.5.1 (if all works.) If you follow this install up with regular updates through Synaptic, Mesa will also get updated and break the driver.

There is probably a way around this but it would be nice to know when VIA will support a more current form of Mesa that's not quite two years old. For two glorious weeks, I had a working J7F5 that quit rendering after some updates. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver through the ./vinstall no longer reverts to 6.5.1 and is left nonworking.

Good luck to all who struggle and I keep checking for more stable releases of the driver. If anyone else experiences the same problem and finds a work around, don't hesitate to post it.

Cheers!