Re: RH& Install: Trident Video Card Blues

[Matt Drew <mdrew redhat com>]

There were a *lot* of problems with the XFree86 3.3.6 server in 7.0 in
general.  Savage 4's, Savage IX's, a number of Trident cards, and the I128
server were all affected by some compilation problems.  There is a
workaround in the Gotchas page for 7.0 (the Savage workaround) that
pretty much applies to all of these cards.  I wrote the original gotcha,
but haven't had a chance to to update things.  The list of cards ran into
the thirties, and I have to test them all before I put something like that
out.:(

In essence, you need to downgrade to the 6.2 SVGA server, or switch to
XFree 4.0.1 if the driver is there for your card.  Alternatively, you can
try the 3.3.6-35 server currently in rawhide, which should fix all of
those problems.

Matt

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, John Daisley wrote:

> I have the same problems only with a Trident Blade 3D.....Wierd thing is
> that if I use the Japanese version of the cd it configures just fine....Only
> problem is I cant read Japanese :)   Any ideas?
>
> All the Best
> John
>
> "ABrady" <kcsmart kc rr com> wrote in message
> news:XFMail 20010309005637 kcsmart kc rr com   
> >
> > On 08-Mar-2001 ed c semblantes opined:
> > > Hi everybody!
> > > I just installed RH7 in an old 586 machine.  I have a Trident
> > > Microsystems video card (TGUI 9660 968X as recognized by the
> > > installation program).  The installation program correctly recognized
> > > my monito as being a Compaq S700.  However,  it couldn't set up the
> > > X-Windows environment.  It repeatedly failed.  I tried many
> > > combinations of clock chipsets and monitor resolutions and then gave
> > > up.
> > > Has anybody run into issues with video cards of these type (TRIDENT)?
> > > Any suggestions on how to set my system even on a basic level ?
> > > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > In the pre-XFree86-4.0 days, I'd say run XF86Setup because I used it on
> > the board and got it to work fine. Now, though, the only thing I can
> > locate is one called xf86cfg to do the same thing.
> >
> > I can't recall how well it works, but I do remember using it and getting
> > my S3 Virge working with it. It seems I had a problem or 2 with it but,
> > finally got it to behave long enough to let me get things set up.
> >
> > I remember that card was always found as a 9680 by default with the likes
> > of Xconfigurator, and that I had to use XF86Setup to get it to allow me
> > to make all of the decisions about timing, memory, etc because using the
> > 9680 settings tried hard to fry my monitor.
> >
> > I'd suggest you try xf86cfg and see if it lets you make those decisions
> > and not allow anything to use what it probes by default. Bad things can
> > happen when those cards are probed and the defalt settings used!
> >
> > If there are other ways (like maybe xf86config is still around), I'm not
> > aware of them, though you can always try manually editting the config
> > file if you can get the proper settings to do it with (not for the faint
> > of heart or impatient when doing trial-and-error).
> >
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> >
> >
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