I've got a Blade3D working. It was a pain in the butt. Every time I ran
Xconfigurator it would lock up the whole machine when testing video modes. So
did every other X tool for setting modes.
My final (and successful) trick in Xconfigurator:
get the monitor docs, find ONE preset mode that I liked.
choose "unlisted" as the monitor type
set H to be docspecified H - 5 to docspecified H + 1
set V to be docspecified V - 10 to docspecified V + 10
finish Xconfigurator normally but DON'T test.
save changes and exit.
restart PC but DON'T go into X
manually edit XF86Config to remove modelines the monitor is incapable of
(shouldn't be necessary, but it was)
save file
startx
The resulting videomode worked, and then I was able to play around with
various tools and the XF86Config file to get support for all the resolutions
I wanted. But if I run Xconfigurator, it screws it all up again. Fortunately,
I saved the working XF86Config.
--- Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake?
> (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the
> alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985
> (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success.
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
>
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