FW: [ltp] Thinkpad i Series 1200 model 71U

[Bruce Cowan]

I just got another message from Silicon Motion and they claim to have
released a new driver for XFree86 4.0 just _last week_.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Schneider
[mailto:christian.schneider@Smail.Uni-Koeln.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2000 1:09
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Re: FW: [ltp] Thinkpad i Series 1200 model 71U


On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Bruce Cowan wrote:

> SMI support claims that they have given a driver XFree86, but as I said
> below, XFree86 claims no support for 4.0. What is the real situation?
> 
> Bruce

Hi there,

I have an i1200 61 (or 67 or else) with SMI chipset. I couldn't get the
graphics to work with Debian (I used the driver shipped with XFree 3.3.6 
not the one from Silicon Motion's website which is marked beta and seems 
to be older). It worked when I rebooted from Win98 otherwise severe
drawing errors occurred; unfortunately there's no documentation as to
parametres for the driver available. It works fine using Kernel 2.2
and the framebuffer device. Though that solution is in terms of speed
clearly suboptimal.

Regards,

Christian

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