The main problem will be the trident cyberblade.  It's a totally bollocks
video chipset...  I had a 4 Mb one in a toshiba 4030.

Try an older version of X...  

These links may help
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/malfer1/articls/toshiba.htm
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html

I used to use twm with nothing particularly flash or heavy on the old
machine, and it was fine most of the time.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Himmelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 6:58 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Toshiba 1800-100 Graphics


I only have some problems with 2d-graphics. When I try to play 
Flash-games they are extremly slow and the cursor flickers while it is 
over the movie. Fading effects, e.g. what happens with the background 
when one clicks on System -> Log Out in Gnome 2.10, and scrolling are 
also slow. The former owner of the laptop said that he experienced 
somthing similar with Fedora. Easy things such as moving windows still 
work well. I found out that the grahics card is a trident CyberBlade:

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems 
CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)

I tried googling for the card/laptop but I could only find things that 
are too old. I also had a look at xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log but 
could not find anything there:

[xorg.conf]
...
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1"
        Driver          "trident"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        VideoRAM        8192
EndSection
...

[/var/log/Xorg.0.log]
...
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) ... I heard
that some people have problems with ACPI and that using APM 
instead should work. I am not sure what ubuntu uses as I have not 
compiled this kernel myself. Whatever it does use, it seems to work. I 
can powersave the monitor, display battery usage and even hibernate.

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