On Mon Jan 31 2000 at 10:04, John C Cusick wrote:
> I have an older 100mhz pentium. I just added a Trident
> 975/3d 4 meg card to this box. It was like setting up
> X for the first time (I haven't had this much trouble since
> my first one, 10 or 12 boxes and 15 different cards ago :-)
If you go to:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/trident1.html#1
you'll see the list of supported Trident Chipsets (in the 3.3.6
release)...
The Trident driver has undergone some slight work for XFree86
3.3.3. Because of this work, all of the Trident SVGA
chipsets, except the very first one, are supported by both the
color and monochrome servers.
8800CS 8200LX 8900B 8900C 8900CL/D 9000 9000i 9100B 9200CXr
9320LCD 9400CXi 9420 9420DGi 9430DGi 9440AGi 9660XGi 9680
ProVidia9682 ProVidia9685 Cyber9382 Cyber9385 Cyber9385-1
Cyber9388 Cyber9397 Cyber9520 Cyber9525 3DImage975(PCI)
3DImage975(AGP) 3DImage985(AGP) Blade3D CyberBlade
It must be noted that the 9000i chipset is treated as a 9000
by the server. Additionally the 9100B is treated as a Trident
8900CL. Therefore it is equivalent to putting `Chipset
"tvga8900cl"' or `Chipset "tvga9000"' in the XF86Config file.
Also, note that the 9000i, 9100B have not been tested with the
server, but should work in this way according to the chipset
documentation.
[...]
The Cyber9388/9397, 3DImage975 and 3DImage985 cards are fixed
in XFree86 v3.3.3, these chipsets have some acceleration now
too. This acceleration has been disabled by default for the
Cyber9388/9397 because there have been problems, but it can be
re-enabled with the "accel" option (see below).
You'll need to use the SVGA driver.
> Anyway, the minor problem is that this card will not operate with X
> unless I first fire it up in 800x600 mode ( 8bpp ). Not that this is
> a great problem, but I would like to start it right off in a higher
> resolution instead of starting x and then waiting to do ctrl-alt-+/-
What version of XFree86 is this?
> If I have anything other than 800x600 start first then all I can
> get is a black screen. Probing clocks is NOT reccommended
> with this card.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this, or should I just live with it?
>
> Thanks to all.
Hope you can solve your problem.
Cheers
Tony
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