I have the exact same problems with another Toshiba laptop with the same video card.
I did try to fix the problem by hacking the driver w/out success... Too bad. Cheers, Olivier. On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:53, Trent R. Gemmill wrote: > I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 which uses the Trident cyberblade > Ai1/Xp chip. I am running RH 8.0 (Linux version 2.4.18-14, X11R6 V 4.2). > I have downloaded the "latest" trident driver from Alan Hawthorn's Xfee86 > page. > > When I play a movie, etc. I get a random (truely!, I've tried exactly the > same thing 0 - 6 times to get a crash) hard locking of the machine > requiring a complete system reset. It always happens when I initiallystart > playing a movie. The screen immediately turns an odd checkered pattern: > xterm windows and movie windows are still there as a different kind of > striped plaid than the desktop. > > Whenever I play a movie I get a one-pixel blue line running from theupper > left corner of the image to the right side of the screen and underneath > that a 2nd 1-pixel blue line which turns brown and ends before the > hitting right side. I often also get a vertical blue line running along > the left edge of the image going from top to bottom (1 pixel in width). > The lines I can live with. > > This happens under KDE or Gnome; in 16, 24 or 32 bit res (never tried 8); > using mplayer, xine or realplayer. I could only find one helpful > reference to this on a now-defunct Xfree list: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/xf-xpert/msg06754.html > and have not seen any fixes. > > Is their any solution to this? I must use this laptop for animated > presentations and un-accelerated video is too slow. Is thir any way I can > help with this? Altho I'm a bear of little c-programming ability. > > Trent > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Olivier Fourdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.xfce.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
