The VIA board I’m using in my new fileserver has an onboard Unichrome-II graphics chip. I didn’t have any luck getting X up and running using the stable X11 6.8.2 packages, but the via driver in the X11 6.8.99 packages works.
I don’t know how the X.Org via driver compares to the Unichrome project’s driver. I couldn’t find an ebuild for this driver in the main Portage tree. If it turns out that the X.Org via driver doesn’t support all the hardware acceleration of the Unichrome-II, I’ll make the time to take a good look at the Unichrome project’s driver.
Speaking of hardware acceleration … next step is to get mplayer built 
Oh, and some themes for Gnome that aren’t as butt-ugly as the default ones!
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January 16th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Hi. Any further news about your file server project? I’ve been trying the same sort of thing using a VIA M10000 board, 3Ware raid controller and 3 WD SATA disks. What with another (IDE) disk for the O/S - I’m using Fedora Core 4 - the 1U Tavla C146 case runs quite hot. I’m thinking about different cases to get better cooling, so I was wondering how successful you had been with the stacker case.
Cheers
James
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