Daniel B. Price wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop with a Trident Cyberblade XP4m32 card. The
> trident driver is, basically, crappy. So I'd prefer to use VESA. I have for
> some time successfully used VESA under Xsun. But, I'd like to move to
> Xorg to pick up all of the goodness therein :)
>
> The problem I hit is that my screen turns dark red when I start up the Xorg
> server-- the bits are still rendered, but the colormap is badly off. In
> the past I've had trouble google searching for likely candidates for this
> problem. Tonight however, I discovered
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2150 which exactly documents the
> problem I'm having.
>
> Can we somehow advocate to Xorg for a fix to this bug? It would really help
> as we move towards a day when Xorg is the default server. Thanks,
Not really - I don't think there's anyone actively maintaining the Xorg
vesa driver, so it's pretty much a matter of a volunteer wanting to work
on it. If the patch in the bug report works for you, I can commit it to the
tree, but otherwise, I don't know enough about it to say if it's a good idea
or not, or to suggest a better fix. (I believe Sun is a full VESA member and
has access to all the specs documents, but I'd have to ask around to find
them.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
