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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?John_B=E4ckstrand?= <sandos@home.se>
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Subject: Re: Problem with thinkpad 760xl, (Trident FB) TGUI 96xx
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:49:53 +0200
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> I have a IBM Thinkpad 760XL, with a trident in it,
> giving this from lspci -v -v:
>
> 00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident
Microsystems
> TGUI 9660/968x/968x (rev d3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle-
> MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
> DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at 08000000 (32-bit,
> non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>         Region 1: Memory at 08400000 (32-bit,
> non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Region 2: Memory at 08800000 (32-bit,
> non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>         Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled]
[size=64K]
>
> The tridentfb driver isnt working very good, the
output
> on screen is in some way interlaced in some odd way.
I
> have a .png here:

Forgot the link:

http://medlem.spray.se/sandos/thinkpad.jpg

The characters does seem to be solid in this jpeg, but
they have every second scanline black/ displaced.

> I have also not been able to get Xfree 4.2.1 working,
> but that seems to be another problem, seems the
> modeline isnt right. The tridentfb driver seems to be
> more on course, since the screen is atleast stable,
not
> unsycnched "noise" as in X, only weirdly interleaved.
> Any ideas? Is this 760XL in some way different from
> others of the same brand, since others seem to have
> better luck?
>
> ---
> John Bäckstrand
>