VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]

[Connor Behan]

On 27/12/16 05:11 AM, CK wrote:
> The Xorg server has been broken for 2-3 years when
> using drivers for this chipset.  I am not enough of
> an Xorg geek to know all the details, but it broke
> between FreeBSD 9.3 and later releases.  And between
> Linux Puppy Precise-5.7.1 and later releases.
>
> And all 3 drivers were tried: the original VIA driver,
> the 0.3.3 openchrome driver, and the 0.5.0 openchrome
> driver - and these are good fanless boards that are
> still sold today (686s) and they should be supported,
> especially since they worked fine previously and the
> support was broken in some way - I still use and/or
> support over dozen of them with UNIX type systems
> that rely on Xorg.  These boards are not old
> outdated technolgy by any standard.
>
> Please fix whatever was broken, so that boards relying
> on this chipset can function with future UNIX-type
> system releases.  Thank you.
I agree that it should be fixed. But this sounds a lot like what "git
bisect" was written for.

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