X.Org on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 (Trident Cyberblade/XP)

[Edward Dekkers]

Anybody have this combination working?

I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search, but
nothing has worked for me.

With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.

With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless searches,
I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.

Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

Regards,
Ed.

P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...
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[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search, but
nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless searches,
I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

[Edward Dekkers]

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I said
I'd scoured the net.

In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?

I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not work
on install either.

Regards,
Ed.
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[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I said
I'd scoured the net.
In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?
I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not work
on install either.

Could you send the output of X -probeonly and also your xorg.conf
Have you tried configuring X using system-config-display --reconfig

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.

Alex

[Edward Dekkers]

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode
on this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I
said I'd scoured the net.
In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?
I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not
work on install either.

Could you send the output of X -probeonly and also your xorg.conf
Have you tried configuring X using system-config-display --reconfig

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.

Alex

Is there any way to capture the result of X -probeonly? I tried:

X -probeonly > /home/edward/Xprobeonly.txt

But the file was empty.

I've tried using system-config-display --reconfig, with as a result that
the screen is white again. The cursor appears (and moves when I move the
mouse) for a few seconds then disappears. After that I get just
whiteness. Switching to text console is completely corrupted.

The best results so far have been vesa mode - a yummy 640x480 mode in 16
bit depth.

I won't mention that Windows works perfectly well in 1024x768 with 16
bit colour.

Basically - no matter what I do - using the trident driver has given no
result whatsoever.

Only playing with vesa modes has given me something so far - but I don't
have to mention 640x480 is unusable nowadays.

This is the xorg.conf I have attached.

Seems to me the version of this Trident in the notebook is not
compatible with the xorg version.

There's plenty of mention of these problems being eradicated when
XFree86 4.20 came along reading back on the net when this was a common
problem.

Should I go back to XFree86? If so is this an easy thing or is
everything now tightly integrated in x.org?

Regards,
Ed.
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
# DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
# Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "640x480"
# Viewport 0 0
# EndSubSection
EndSection

Try manually adding modes for the subsection display.
eg. Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

This should atleast get the display to run on vesa at 1024x768 resolution.

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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
# DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
# Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "640x480"
# Viewport 0 0
# EndSubSection
EndSection

Try manually adding modes for the subsection display.
eg. Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

This should atleast get the display to run on vesa at 1024x768 resolution.

[Edward Dekkers]

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode
on this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I
said I'd scoured the net.
In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?
I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not
work on install either.

Could you send the output of X -probeonly and also your xorg.conf
Have you tried configuring X using system-config-display --reconfig

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.

Alex

Is there any way to capture the result of X -probeonly? I tried:

X -probeonly > /home/edward/Xprobeonly.txt

But the file was empty.

I've tried using system-config-display --reconfig, with as a result that
the screen is white again. The cursor appears (and moves when I move the
mouse) for a few seconds then disappears. After that I get just
whiteness. Switching to text console is completely corrupted.

The best results so far have been vesa mode - a yummy 640x480 mode in 16
bit depth.

I won't mention that Windows works perfectly well in 1024x768 with 16
bit colour.

Basically - no matter what I do - using the trident driver has given no
result whatsoever.

Only playing with vesa modes has given me something so far - but I don't
have to mention 640x480 is unusable nowadays.

This is the xorg.conf I have attached.

Seems to me the version of this Trident in the notebook is not
compatible with the xorg version.

There's plenty of mention of these problems being eradicated when
XFree86 4.20 came along reading back on the net when this was a common
problem.

Should I go back to XFree86? If so is this an easy thing or is
everything now tightly integrated in x.org?

Regards,
Ed.
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[Jim Cornette]

Edward Dekkers wrote:

You have been hit by the below bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242
Replacing libvgahw.a with ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a
should get X up and running again.

mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a.volatile
cp <path to downloaded file from ftp link above>libvgahw.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chmod 444 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chown root:root /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
reboot

When the computer reboots, you might need to run "system-config-display
--reconfig" in order to get settings back to how they should be set.

Jim

[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I said
I'd scoured the net.
In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?
I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not work
on install either.

Could you send the output of X -probeonly and also your xorg.conf
Have you tried configuring X using system-config-display --reconfig

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.

Alex

[Jim Cornette]

Edward Dekkers wrote:

You have been hit by the below bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242
Replacing libvgahw.a with ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a
should get X up and running again.

mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a.volatile
cp <path to downloaded file from ftp link above>libvgahw.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chmod 444 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chown root:root /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
reboot

When the computer reboots, you might need to run "system-config-display
--reconfig" in order to get settings back to how they should be set.

Jim

[Edward Dekkers]

Post by Alexander Apprich
Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search,
but nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless
searches, I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex

Thanks Alex, yes, I do know that. The X.Org site was implied when I said
I'd scoured the net.

In short - I should work but doesn't - has anybody got a working
configuration like this?

I should also mention I had to do a text install. Graphics did not work
on install either.

Regards,
Ed.
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[Edward Dekkers]

Anybody have this combination working?

I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search, but
nothing has worked for me.

With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.

With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless searches,
I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.

Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

Regards,
Ed.

P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...
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[Alexander Apprich]

Hi Edward,

Post by Edward Dekkers
Anybody have this combination working?
I've referred to Linux On Laptops, and done a general google search, but
nothing has worked for me.
With the initial detected settings, I simply get a white screen, and
switching back to text console has a corrupted screen.
With vga=791 and vesa settings I've acquired from my fruitless searches,
I get a total notebook re-boot after the screen blanks.
Where do I look next to get Fedora Core 4 to work in graphics mode on
this aging laptop?

according to the Xorg documentation
http://x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/trident.4.html the Trident Cyberblade/XP is
supported.

Post by Edward Dekkers
Regards,
Ed.
P.S. It may be aging, but it booted up pretty fast...

Alex