Any way to configure VIA Chrome9?

[John Nielsen]

Quoting Tore Lund <toreld at netscape.net>:
> My new motherboard has the built-in VIA Chrome9 graphics processor,
> which seems to use the xf86-video-via driver.  The driver works, no
> doubt about that, but I badly want to configure gamma, contrast, etc.
>
> There is supposedly a configuraton utility for Linux, but the few
> comments I can find about it are not very encouraging.  After all, even
> the s3gamma utility for Windows is rather clunky and lackluster.
>
> I may simply have to buy yet another grahics card (there is no AGP slot
> on this board).  But it seems odd that there is no way to configure this
> processor, which otherwise seems fairly capable (unlike, say, the nv
> driver).  Being able to somehow set gamma independently on the RGB
> channels might be all I need.  Thanks for any hints.

I haven't used it, but you may want to check out the openchrome project 
(http://www.openchrome.org). There is a FreeBSD port available in the 
ports tree under x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome.

JN