Yeah Yeah, responding to myself again!! Further info that might help
fellow sufferers and/or bug hounds:
1) Using 'Option "noaccel" "on"' makes it work
2) Using 'Option "nommio" "on"' makes it work
3) Configuring XF86_SVGA to run with 'Option "accel"'
for this card is useless in itself, since it garbles the screen, but
simply starting and then stopping the XF86_SVGA server with such a
configuration seems to correctly initialize the card such that the XFree86
server will subsequently work without the need for disabling acceleration
things!
I guess XF86_SVGA is doing something that the trident module does not do
but should.
This is how I originally got it to work - I finally figured it out!
Martin
PS I HAVE reported this to RH and to Xfree org.
>On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Martin Bartlett wrote: trident driver
> Anyone solved the "how do I get a trident cyber 9397 (or similar)
> working so it won't freeze the system when X starts" problem!!!
> Thinkpad 770X in my case though I suspect that this problem is more
> general than that.
> The REALLY annoying thing is that after failing to get the graphical
> installer working (freeze up) and then getting X 3.3.6 working after a
> text install, I SOMEHOW got X 4.0 trident working. It was fast and great!
> Then I rebooted and I have never managed to get it going again since -
> always freezes the darn thing up so a power-off is required!
>
> And has anyone else had a segmentation fault in Xconfigurator. I used the
> standard X 4.0 config tool to configer since I could, and can, not get
> Xconfigurator to work.
>
> Martin
>
>
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