From suse-linux-e Sat May 12 14:51:16 2001 From: dep Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:51:16 +0000 To: suse-linux-e Subject: trident cyber 9385, thinkpad 760xl, xfree86-4.03, no joy X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=suse-linux-e&m=101798186827884 greetings. i've been through the docs, contacted installation support, and tried all the experiments i could think of, and still no luck. i'm hoping someone here can provide the crucial clue. i installed suse 7.1 on a thinkpad 760xl, which because it has interchangeable floppy/cd drive, and cannot boot from the cd, required that i do the install by ftp from the cd in my desktop machine. this resulted in a yast1 console installation. the notebook id a p-II-166 w/104 megs; the vid system has a meg. the machine is four or five years old, and works fine at 800x600 with xfree86-3.3.6. problem is, none of the xfree86-4.03 configurators (or any hand-edited /etc/X11/XF86Config i can come up with) works. suse install support suggested insertion of vga = 788 in lilo.conf (and of course rerunning /sbin/lilo), which takes, but on reboot it throws an error saying that 788 is invalid. which is to say that the machine doesn't support the kernel's vesa framebuffer stuff. which oughtn't matter -- on my desktop machine, an extensively hacked caldera 2.4, i start in rl3 all the time and get xfree 4.03 without vesa framebuffer support at all. i've updated the trident_drv.o from suse to no apparent effect, and i cannot find any reference to its requiring vesa framebuffers; indeed, in that the docs say it's accelerated it seems as if it cannot run with the vesa framebuffers, which disable acceleration. attempting to start sax2 -m 0:trident renders a horribly trashed screen; xf86cfg blanks the screen, going into graphical mode, and at ctrl-alt-bksp renders errors that it cannot find any of my font paths.. xf86config produces the strange effect of a screen that switches to graphical mode and chugs along, even to the point of the kde startup music starting. problem is, the screen reflects none of this, having gone into graphical blank at startx and having remained blank thereafter. a check of the X log file tells me that there is no valid mode "800x600," which in fact is pretty much the *only* valid mode for this machine. it does not have pixel stretching, meaning that when things run at 640x480, they do so in a nice 640x480 box in the center of the screen. i've attempted to run sax2 -m 0:vga, which runs just fine; i've attempted thereafter to edit the resulting /etc/X11/XF86Config to reflect the proper driver instead of vga, but this has produced nothing useful. for my own nefarious reasons, i'm eager to switch from 3.3.6 to 4.03. but i've hit the wall no matter what angle i've approached it from. anyone with experience in this kind of thing who has the key to the clue box? thanks. -- dep there's more to history than what's in books; that's why it took so long to happen.