how to install via cards on ubuntu

4 02 2009
how to install via cards in ubuntuwhat we need :- Ubuntu 8.04
- latest via drivers here
- and the attached xorg.conf
First step after we download the driver
1. Install the driver using root account
sudo ./vinstall
2. In order to enable aiglx, please do as following:
(1) edit the script file /usr/bin/compiz, find the line:
WHITELIST=”nvidia intel ati radeon i810″
(2) modify it to:
WHITELIST=”nvidia intel ati radeon i810 via”
After that we go quickly to
/etc/X11
and open xorg.conf
and delete every thing on it
and write this xorg.conf that i attached in it and save it
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorgSection “InputDevice”
Identifier    “Generic Keyboard”
Driver        “kbd”
Option        “XkbRules”    “xorg”
Option        “XkbModel”    “pc101″
Option        “XkbLayout”    “en”
Option        “XkbOptions”    “lv3:ralt_switch”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier    “Configured Mouse”
Driver        “mouse”
Option        “CorePointer”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier    “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver        “synaptics”
Option        “SendCoreEvents”    “true”
Option        “Device”        “/dev/psaux”
Option        “Protocol”        “auto-dev”
Option        “HorizEdgeScroll”    “0″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Driver “via”
Identifier    “Configured Video Device”
Option “LCDPort”       “DFP_HIGHLOW”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier    “Default Layout”
Screen        “Default Screen”
InputDevice    “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load  “glx”
Load  “dri”
Load  “extmod”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier    “Default Screen”
Device        “Configured Video Device”
Monitor        “Monitor”
DefaultDepth    24
SubSection “Display”
Depth        24
Modes        “1280×800″
Virtual 1280 800
EndSubSection
EndSection

Then
4. To enable desktop effects from here , restart x-server (”Ctl+Alt+Backspace)
All thanks for valinuxx