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

On 7/19/05, Andrew Sackville-West < andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

frustrating thing is that xorg found the video card and pulled the right
  driver and ident string etc no problem... and that virtual terminal
crap is REALLY annoying. I'll ive it a week and try again, I suppose.
Thankfully its my play-box...

A

--

there's something really disturbing when the spell-checker suggesstion
for "xorg" is "Borg"

Steven Noble wrote:
> 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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