On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:54:41AM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Mike Manchester wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 file for an IBM Thinkpad 760xl?
> >Does this machine take a special trident_drv.so. I found on comment on
> >the web about the trident using some default LCD settting on the chip
> >and ignoring the mode lines. Which makes a lot of sense to me. For
> >awhile I thought X was just ignoring me, as it didn't seem to matter
> >what I did with the mode lines the monitor always acted the same way,
> >which was unusable. Maybe if I could find some info on how/what mode
> >lines I could come up with a working on. Rather than just shotgunning
> >the numbers into mode lines.
> >
> >Mike M
> >
> >
> >
> I don't think that you will do any good with X 4.x and trident
> drivers. My experience has been that the trident drivers are messed up
> in the 4.x versions of X. I had to use either version 3.3 with the
> trident drivers, or the unlisted svga driver and X 4.0 when I was using
> a 760. Maybe they work in 4.1 now, but I haven't seen anything in the
> laptop groups mentioning whether or not the problem has been fixed.
Trident chips are apparently crap, but they will work in the 4 version
of X. I've got one working on this machine, though not the model Mike
cited. But I will say that if you don't get the config right (which X
4.1 on Debian does pretty well), you're in for a host of weird
phenomena.
Paul
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