Just another Gentoo PSA, portage now has the latest driver for the openChrome X11 drivers for VIA chipsets (x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome). These drivers are really nice because they support more chipsets than the standard VIA ones do.
I shouldn’t get any credit for this one. I’ve actually had an ebuild for this for like 4 months, and procastinated putting it into the tree. In fact, Donnie (dberkholz) beat me to to it — thanks, man. All I really did was clean up the ebuild and do some testing. Also, of course, thanks to upstream for actually working on the project and getting something successful out the door. Much love.
So there ya go. With that little driver you should be able to do some cool stuff with those Mini-ITX’s that you’ve been waiting to convert into a PVR. Rock on.