p4m900 ubuntu 8.04

[Tocal]

Hello, i am having difficulty in getting my via on board graphics card to work, I am using a p4m900 chip set with 2 gigs of ram and dual core 1.8 processor.Being a newbie to the Linux system I really don't know where I am going wrong this is the error message I get, I cant make any heads or tails of this so any help would be great. Also I am using the via-chrome9.83.40558 package from VIA Linux Portal.

install the via driver!
...cp: cannot stat `./bin/via_drv.so': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so': No such file or directory
...cp: cannot stat `./bin/via-agp.ko': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.ko': No such file or directory
...cp: cannot stat `./bin/libGL.so.1.2.via_chrome9': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.via_chrome9': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./bin/via_chrome9_dri.so': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/dri/via_chrome9_dri.so': No such file or directory
...cp: cannot stat `./bin/drm.ko': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./bin/via_chrome9.ko': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/via_chrome9.ko': No such file or directory
...Template file './viax.conf' not exist. Exit!

[Tocal]

Sorted it out, thanks.

[Ambricka]

I guess you forgot to cd to the dir?
But then, did you get it to do something useful?
Now that the new ubuntu kernel showed up the modules wont load without -f.
And still it's VERY flakey.
300 fps in glxgears is a shame, right?
VIA EPIA SN18000 board...

[gruntz]

Do you have direct rendering. I set up the new VIA driver, but still no direct rendering (glxinfo) ;(

[algernon]

Originally Posted by gruntz

Do you have direct rendering. I set up the new VIA driver, but still no direct rendering (glxinfo) ;(

I have Ubuntu 8.04 on Fujitsu-Siemens 3515 laptop with p4m900 chipset and direct rendering doesn't work. Xorg fails when I try to run glxinfo. I found that drm module isn't loaded. When I try to load drm manually, I get

FATAL: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format

and dmesg says

drm: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module

[redchrom]

FATAL: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format

You have to load the older kernel 2.6.24-16. Such problems will exists until Via public the source code for drm.

[algernon]

Ok, I found what a problem was that. VIA drivers compatible only with ubuntu kernel 2.6.24-16, but I upgraded to 2.6.24-17 today. I downgrade to 2.6.24-16 and everything work now.

redchrom, thank you for help. I found solution myself in experimental way just several minutes before your post