[ltp] XF86 4.1.0

[Bill Turner]

On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:57:24 -0400
"André Cotte" <acotte@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I had also problems with 4.10.  With _ TP 600e.  After a few
> minutes, X froze and I had to restart the machine.  Impossible to
> exit gracefuly of X or Linux.
> 
> Finally I use Mandrake 8.1 with an earlier version of 4.10  I hope
> that 4.20 will resolve the problem

Running Vector Linux 2.5 on TP 760 (think that's right) and what I
found was "no joy" on XF 4.2.x and I have to use XF 3.3.6 because as
Jim said there is no "generic SVGA" driver in 4.2.x and the Trident
driver is totally hosed to be polite about it.

No choice.  Not if you want to run X anyway.

> >Hi,
> >Has anyone had any experience with XF86 4.1.0 with Trident 9320
> >video hardware? 
> >Recently I upgraded (stupidly?) my 365X from Slackware 7.1 to 8.0.
> >On the 7.1 install, I had XF86 3.3.6 working just fine with the
> >"svga" driver. It seems the generic svga driver no longer exists
> >under 4.1.0, and the"trident" driver is not working very well at
> >all (that is, X starts, but the screen is partially garbled).
> >Anyone have any success with 4.1.0 on this laptop or with this
> >chipset? Thanks for your help,
> >Jim

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