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<BODY>Well it seems that there is some patches for the trident driver, but it's not yet in the cvs :(<br>
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This means that I have to compile Xfree myself :(<br>
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>From the Xfree mailinglist.<br>
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Question: "Also, what's the current status with Trident.. have they pulled their head<br>
out of their arses yet?"<br>
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Reply: "No!" <br>
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dammit<br>
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On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 08:56, Attila Kinali wrote:<pre><FONT COLOR="#737373">> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:23:40 +0200 Anders Rune Jensen <root@gnulinux.dk> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > I remembered someone talking earlier about running divx on a 266 laptop with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > DGA, so I installed debian on my laptop P3 750 (Thought it would be powerful </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > enough). x11 and DGA works, I've been able to get SDL working in one of my </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > earlier tries, but it just wouldn't work know. Anyway xv is not supported in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > the driver for the gfx yet (Trident Cyberblade XP). DGA works, I can hear to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > sound and the screen blanks, but the image does blank and When I stop the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > movie I cannot get back to Xfree have to ctrl alt backspace :(</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > Seems like it needs a simple fix, just can't find out what. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> For me it looks more like a driver problem (which isnt that</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> easy to fix). As I dont have any experience with Trident</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> cards, I can only give the advice to update your X to the newest</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> version (4.1.x), maybe it works.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Remark 1) You shouldnt press reply if you want to start a new</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Thread. It gets sorted in to a existing tree... best way to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> make ppl oversee your mail.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Remark 2) you shouldnt work as root (but this is unix basic...)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Attila Kinali</FONT>
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