I can confirm similar problems have been FIXED with the latest driver. Synopsis: newly upgraded to 4.2.1 via debian/sid.
Card: Trident 3DImage975 Drivers not working: version in distro (Debian numbering convention 4.2.1-3) and version found at ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/test-driver/trident_drv.o (D/Led ~12:30 GMT 25 Oct. 2002) Driver found to cure problem: http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/trident_drv.o (D/Led about 10 minutes after above date/time) I noticed that the working driver only wrote one line of the form: (II) TRIDENT(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 However the mharris driver wrote dozens of (what i recall as) the same line. Possibly a further clue if this "fix" turns out to be phase-of-the-moon related ;-) Incidentally, I had rebooted from a power-off prior to running the Debian version of the driver for the first time. I didn't think to do that before the mharris version however. If it'll help track down further probs, I am (of course) willing to further test/document the details of the rigamarole... Cheers, Frank Horowitz (replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please, as I don't subscribe to this list.) On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:25:08PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > After lurking on the debian-x mailing list to no avail, and then doing some > 'research' into the palette issue with the current 4.2.1 (might even be > 4.2.x). I seem to get between 16 and 256 colours repeated round and round. > Anything above 8bit colour depths are un-usable. 8bit colour depths as > usable but its not nice. > > I thought at first it could be a debian only issue as the problem occured > during an apt-get upgrade session, however my 'research' showed many others > have the same problem, not only for the debian users but also people building > from source. > > Once or twice (seems to depend on the phase of the moon) the Xserver fires up > properly with the right set of colours in 16bit (and other colour depths) > however this only *ever* happens after a cold reboot if at all. Also when it > does work the gamma is probably around 1.8 ish and cannot be changed. I also > notice that 4.2.x introduced a gamma fix for Trident cards..... > > To me this is a big coincidence.....what do you think > > I have of course attached my XF86Config-4 file and XFree86.0.log file, do > send me tests etc, I really want this fixed as I am condemed to using remote > Xsessions off a windoze box to get a proper looking desktop :-/ > > I have tried the latest binary from > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/test-driver/trident_drv.o and to no aval, > even with a cold reboot. Try the updated driver from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh Make sure you powerdown again. Alan. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
