[ltp] XF86 4.1.0

[Jim Eberhardt]

Like Bill, I've gone back to 3.3.6 on top of the newer Slackware 8.0 (using
the 8.0 window managers, as well).

I don't recall where it is or I'd track down the verbiage, but in digging
thru the xfree86 web site I came across a page that suggested the trident
drivers were ported but not tested, or under development, or something of
that nature...wish I could recall exactly what it said.

Jim


At 06:27 AM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:57:24 -0400
>"Andr=E9 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.
>>=20
>> 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?=20
>> >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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