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Re: Trident display card



On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:50:58PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x (rev d3)
> > I tried the xfree4 "trident" driver, but it didn't display quite right.
> > (The display was ... um, "fragmented", though the mouse cursor moved
> > fine, iirc.)

> I have really no idea if this has anything to do with your problem, but I
> just patched my kernel up to 2.4.18 and there was an option for trident
> videocards:
> CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT
> 
> Perhaps it helps a bit?

That option concers the FrameBuffer (FB). You might try using X with
FB, but there will be no acceleration under X. But that might of
course be better then "fragmented" display.

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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