Re: [SLUG] Trident CyberBlade/i1 and graphics characters

From: James Miller (slug@intofocus.com)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 01:04:10 EST


  When I was doing testing of the Snoppix/Knoppix disks, I found that both
of my Trident card compleatly refused to work. They don't like to play nice
with Linux...

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Trident CyberBlade/i1 and graphics characters

> I had a couple of those crappy Trident CyberBlade video cards that I
> picked up cheap for setting up a multi-head system. After fighting with
> them for weeks, I gave up - the driver is flaky, and prone to crashing.
>
> My suggesting to you is to consider putting another video card in the
> box and avoiding that onboard card altogether.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:24:31PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > I've got a Trident CyberBlade/i1 display controller on my motherboard,
> > and am running Deb 3.0r1 and X version 3. When I go from an X
> > environment to a console (Ctrl-Alt-Fn), the normal graphics characters
> > (like arrows, lines, etc.) are now hacked up. They show up as odd shaded
> > areas or what have you. This is true in all consoles, and cannot be
> > fixed without a full reboot. A reset command will not do it. I've seen
> > this before on other video cards, and I just replaced them. But this
> > one's on the motherboard, so no replacing it.
> >
> > Anyone know of a fix?
> >
> > Paul
>



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