Yeah that was me on slashdot... this is probably a more appropriate
forum though
On 7/19/05, *Andrew Sackville-West* < andrew@farwestbilliards.com
<mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com>> wrote:
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> <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> <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
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