VN896 Chrome9 HC IGP at Mandriva 2008.1 (Spring)

[Res87th]

Hello,
I use notebook MSI VR321, where is VN896 chipset. And Mandriva 2008 Spring on it. So I can't do anything to use any video driver than vesa. I tried everything to install via driver, openchrome driver and other, but I'm in the same trouble. And drivers are not work properly. If anyone met this problem, help me please.
Sorry for my English, I'm from Russia.

[gruntz]

Hello.

I have the same chipset ( VN896 ). I am using OpenChrome, in Archlinux, and it si working perfect. What exactly is your problem. What is not working properly.

Regards.

[Res87th]

With OpenChrome driver I have blank screen with sound of "mandriva welcome". There is an error "Can't start DRI" in the log. With VIA driver I have no XServer and error "No videocard found". So I work with vesa driver without hardware acceleration. Now with few manual editing of xorg.conf I starting Mandriva with viaarena driver, but hardware acceleration don't work properly and SDL layer have a lot of brakes.

[gruntz]

You can try posting your openchrome X log and xorg.conf in http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-forums.php
They can help ypu there.

The driver from viaarena has never working for me.

And in http://linux.via.com.tw/ there is no driver for mandriva yet.