help - linux - how to make .ebuild code run?

[Guest]

I need a video driver for my laptop but the graphics chip (s3 chrome pro(chipset is via PN800)) is so old that it isn't supported for modern OS's and the only option for a driver is the unichrome project, which gives me a driver in a .ebuild file that I have to compile and run my self. I have no idea how to do this and google hasn't been giving me any helpful results. The help section on the unichrome site has't been helpful either.

 

I'm running elementary OS freya, which is ubuntu 10.04 lts based.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

side note: I can still use the laptop but at a really low framerate, thanks to the built in drivers being so good.

 

EDIT: The drivers are built in so I don't need to do anything but there is no better driver.

[Neil]

ebuild is a gentoo format. It will probably not run on a debian-based distribution.

 

You can try:

 

chmod +x whatever.ebuildsudo ./whatever.ebuild

 

But most likely it will just give you an error.

 

Try this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome

[Guest]

ebuild is a gentoo format. It will probably not run on a debian-based distribution.

 

You can try:

chmod +x whatever.ebuildsudo ./whatever.ebuild

But most likely it will just give you an error.

 

Try this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome

Thanks, but openchrome is already installed by default on elementary OS. read the edit.