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Bug 147425

Summary: openchrome x11 driver in portage
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Karl H <karl>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: aklhfex, alpiturchi, andrey.melentyev, beandog, ighea, neil
Priority: High Keywords: EBUILD
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.openchrome.org
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome/xf86-video-openchrome-20060912.ebuild
xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.900.ebuild
openchrome ebuild

Description Karl H 2006-09-13 01:26:59 UTC
Attached is new ebuild for consideration.  Currently gentoo users have to manually check out the svn from www.openchrome.org and compile. Hopefully an ebuild can be added to gentoo to automate this.

I'm not an expert ebuild writer so please take a look,  it works on my  UniChromePro CN400 chipset system.
Comment 1 Karl H 2006-09-13 01:28:23 UTC
Created attachment 96860 [details]
x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome/xf86-video-openchrome-20060912.ebuild

ebuild for openchome x11 driver.
Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-13 10:52:27 UTC
Do they not do regular releases like everyone else in the world?
Comment 3 Karl H 2006-09-13 11:36:33 UTC
No, no release manager for the project:
http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-users/2006-March/000733.html

Snapshots of the svn repository is probally the best way, until things get more stable. Openchrome has been adding new features and hardware support for over a year now.

There is a gentoo wiki page on the svn building, but having an ebuild for a driver for the unichrome.

There are other "via" drivers for this chip, but they do not support xvmc on some hardware.
http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Different+Unichrome+family+display+drivers
Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-13 11:39:05 UTC
Not interested in adding these to the tree till they do real releases. Until then, feel free to stick in some overlay like sunrise and reopen this bug when they've got releases.
Comment 5 Karl H 2006-09-13 11:40:47 UTC
Openchome is the way to get xvmc support on MythTV working with the UniChrome-Pro hardware:
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Unichrome
Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-06 10:12:43 UTC
*** Bug 150250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Chris Mayo 2007-11-01 20:32:49 UTC
Created attachment 134962 [details]
xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.900.ebuild

http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-users/2007-October/003662.html

The openchrome team is proud to announce the first openchrome 0.3.0 release candidate.
http://www.openchrome.org/releases/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.900.tar.bz2
Comment 8 Karl H 2007-11-01 20:44:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Not interested in adding these to the tree till they do real releases. Until
> then, feel free to stick in some overlay like sunrise and reopen this bug when
> they've got releases.
> 

There is a release now. 
Comment 9 Neil Bothwick 2008-01-09 12:14:23 UTC
There's been another release now. Does this make it suitable for incluson in portage?
http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-users/2008-January/003905.html
Comment 10 Neil Bothwick 2008-01-09 13:30:00 UTC
Renaming the above 0.2.900 ebuild installs the latest release, which is working fine so far.
Comment 11 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-10 01:12:48 UTC
Their website seems to be down, so I can't look at your link.
Comment 12 Neil Bothwick 2008-01-10 09:25:32 UTC
It's working from here now. The releases themselves are at
http://www.openchrome.org/releases
Comment 13 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-11 07:48:36 UTC
Hey Steve, I think you were talking about this.
Comment 14 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-11 14:17:24 UTC
Created attachment 140709 [details]
openchrome ebuild
Comment 15 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-11 14:17:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Hey Steve, I think you were talking about this.
> 

yah, attached my original one I'm using.  worksforme.
Comment 16 Andrey Melentyev 2008-03-08 20:52:02 UTC
In case someone is interested, here's overlay with openchrome ebuilds: http://repo.or.cz/w/openchrome.git

Article in openChrome wiki explains how to use it with layman.
Comment 17 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-15 00:52:01 UTC
Added to the tree, thanks for your patience.