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[Martin Olsson <mnemo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A long long time ago, there used to be an old driver for VIA cards in
the package xserver-xorg-video-via but that driver was really bad so the
OpenChrome project was started to replace it sort of. There is no driver
at all in the xserver-xorg-video-via package... that package is just
used to make sure that old users are transitioned from the -via driver
to the -openchrome driver when upgrading.

You can tell which driver you are using by looking at the file
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (which usually contains both the driver name and a
version number but note that if you apply a patch it will still show the
same version number of course unless the patch actually changed the
version number which is very rarely the case). If the -openchrome driver
is in use you will see many lines prefixed with "CHROME(0): " in this
log file, and for example if the vesa driver is used you will see many
lines prefixed with "VESA(0):" or something like that.

I have no idea when the new wireless driver will ship but I assume it's
a kernel driver so you should ask the Ubuntu kernel team about it. If
the driver update is necessary to fix the bug then I suggest you open a
bug against the kernel (package "linux") because otherwise there is a
good chance that the kernel team will not see this bug at all.

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[HP 2133 MiniNote laptop] Unexpected and unrecoverable wireless disconnect with B43 driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331952
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