xorg via driver for Unichrome

[Abdullah Ramazanoglu]

Hello,

Allmost all VIA mainboards with integrated graphics use KM400 (i386) or 
K8M800 (amd64) family of chipsets with a Unichrome graphics engine in 
the north bridge. All need the "via" driver (via_drv.o) or else they 
work with the generic "vesa" driver at standard VESA resolutions at 
60Hz (unaccelerated, of course).

In KubuntuPreviewComments I'm told that the via driver is included in 
Hoary, but I'm still unable to find where it is.

I'm using a K8M800 (amd64) based mainboard and I've already installed 
latest xserver-xorg_6.8.2-5.1, and I've actually got all the *_drv.o 
drivers in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers except via_drv.o.

I've also done "apt-get update" followed by "apt-cache search" for the 
keywords via, chrome, xorg, etc. and inspected the results in case the 
via driver is shipped in another package. I'm still unable to find the 
driver and currently my only options are either use the unaccelerated 
generic vesa driver, or compile from the sources from 
unichrome.sourceforge.net.

I don't know how the situation is on i386 side. Is there anyone here 
using the via driver, or should I report this to bugzilla?

Thanks and regards,
-- 
Abdullah Ramazanoglu