Re: Problems with x.org/trident/white screen

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

I've had this same problem on my old Cel300 with Trident 9441 (pci). 
Virtual terminals completely unusable -- had to SSH in from another box 
to do the roll back. <offtopic> something kinda cool about restarting 
the X server from another box and watching it come back up</offtopic> 
Also, there was a post on slashdot about this same problem (was that 
you?) so we aren't alone. FWIW, I could not get the vesa driver to work 
either.... will post back if anything happens over here.

A

Steven Noble wrote:
> A few days ago I upgraded to x.org <http://x.org> in Debian and it 
> discovered my on board video card as a trident compatible just fine. But 
> when x.org <http://x.org> started all I got was a white screen and my 
> virtual terminals were unreadable (I've noted the virtual terminal 
> problem in other threads). I tried the Vesa driver and things work 
> except my resolution is terrible.  So I rolled back to xfree86 which 
> continued to work. I tried again yesterday and the white screen occurred 
> again.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Does anyone know of a fix 
> that allows me to use a reasonable resolution?  Here's an lspci in case 
> anyone finds that sort of thing useful
>
> steven@pc226-2:~$ lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo 
> ProMedia] (rev 05)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
> 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super 
> South] (rev 40)
> 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C
> PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
> 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
> 0000:00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] 
> (rev 40)
> 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems 
> CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
> steven@pc226-2:~$ lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo 
> ProMedia] (rev 05)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
> 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super 
> South] (rev 40)
> 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
> 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
> 0000:00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] 
> (rev 40)
> 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems 
> CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
> steven@pc226-2:~$
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Steven