HP T5570: Notes 

Background

On setting out to install Xubuntu on my t5570 I found that the VIA drivers were still at incredibly old level so finding Richard's notes on your site was very helpful. However, when it came to building the specified OpenChrome driver retrieved using the wget command, I found that the linker complained about a slew of duplicate entries. Further research showed that a ticket had been raised about this but this did not get included in the ftp site so I abandoned this approach and switched to his alternate suggestion of using the latest-and-greatest test version.

I was installing Xubuntu 22.04.

Hardware

Whilst doing this work I found that removing the IDE flash and using the onboard SATA interface to connect a SATA SSD resulted in a phenomenal speed increase in boot times (and generally). So now I'm stuck with a bunch of 2GB and 8GB IDE DOM modules :-).

Building the OpenChrome driver

I followed Richard's approach but switched to his alternative suggestion of cloning the current development version and using that as my source. Also, like Richard, my initial approach had an element of trial-and-error as I discovered what else I needed to install. In my case I had to add xorg-macros and make.

So my working recipe is:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc pkg-config xserver-xorg-dev libxext-dev libxvmc-dev git dh-autoreconf make

mkdir ~/hacking
cd ~/hacking

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/util/macros
cd macros/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

cd ~/hacking

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/xf86-video-openchrome
cd xf86-video-openchrome
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Note: Red text are my additions to Richard's original.