Found the problem - this particular problem IS NOT with the driver for the
Trident chip set! It's the damn driver for the laptop flat panel display!!
Played a hunch and borrowed an external monitor. When the laptop screen has
that single horizontal line, and the pixels get stale from not being
refreshed so the display starts fading to streaky white - the EXTERNAL video
looks just fine. Toggling the ROM BIOS controlled hardware control keys (you
folks with laptops know what i mean - the ones activated by the blue "Fn"
key) will bring the display back again. In the case of this stupid Gateway
machine, it's NOT the one that toggles from the LCD to external video - it's
the one that selects the EXTERNAL VIDEO INPUT - like DVD, PCMCIA card video
in or off.
I'll try to characterize it further and post any new info.
Vinny
On Thursday 31 May 2001 11:26 pm, you wrote:
> Vincent Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running the latest cooker as of last night, and there seems to
> > be a problem with XFree. If I switch from console 7 to console 1, then
> > go back to console 7, all that is there is a line on the right side of
> > the screen. In order to get the a full screen back I have to <ctrl>
> > <backspace> then log in again. The programs are still active before that
> > - I just can't see anything on the screen.
> >
> > The computer is a Gateway 9100 laptop with a Trident chip set.
>
> Are you in framebuffer mode ? Could you try the last version of XFree86 ?
