Hi,
I have a Trident9750-(The Culprit Card). It did'nt respond during the
x-server conf during RH6.2 installation. It just gave out black
screens(Which never happened during RH6.1 install before).
I just skipped x-conf, & chose a text based login and installed everything.
Then fired xf86config , from # , tried out several clock chip settings,
1 -st choice seemed to work for me. I have a Compaq 140 SVGA.
Here's some info culled from exocore............
Unfortunately, most Trident PCI/AGP cards sold in India seem to be cut down
versions lacking some circuitry - basically the TV-OUT circuitry. However,
the BIOS remains unchanged, and tells the Linux driver that the TV-OUT is
the primary display, so the driver accesses the circuitry (which isn't
there) and hangs the system.
You can verify this by running the command
X -probeonly &> /tmp/probe.txt
less /tmp/probe.txt
If you see a reference to talking to the TV out port, you know that you have
one of these illfated cards. Since the developers of the drivers will have
never seen a card like this (unique to India), a fix is unlikely to come -
so you may have to change your card
Guess you have to reconfigure X.
there's a reconfig command (man xf86config), never used it though.
Regards
Kaushik
-----Original Message-----
From: tarun agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: [LIH] culprit trident
>
>hello
>
>i want to know whether trident 3D card is a
>problem-poser for redhat-6.2. i have samsung samtron
>55E monitor and trident-3D blade card . i cannot run
>x-windows properly. my system has started hanging at
>the graphical login screen after working properly for
>about 10 days.
>
>i had earlier set the frequency of my model as the
>lowest range(50-70). but i later tried to increase the
>frequency to 50-90 .( my monitor has specified freq
>of 50-120).but the system hanged out inside the
>configurator itself and it is not recovering.
>even the bios prompts me the following:
>
> Enter SETUP and set clock ratio
>
>what is this nessage supposed to be???
>i did not fiddle anyway with the bios settings.
>please help..
>
>
>anybody else having problem with trident card?
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