Tridentfb updates?

Tridentfb updates?

[Josh Myer]

Hi,

I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
less-than-enlightening (I'm not familiar with X internals).

I'm basically just interested in getting FB working for NTSC output.

Someone was working on this in the VIA forums, but i haven't noticed any
output from him recently.

Pointers to documentation/other posts on this are greatly appreciated.
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Re: Tridentfb updates?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Josh Myer wrote:
> I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is

Is this the Cyber9397? I have some PDF docs about that chip at home.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: Tridentfb updates?

[Josh Myer]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Josh Myer wrote:
> > I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> > have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
>
> Is this the Cyber9397? I have some PDF docs about that chip at home.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> 						Geert

Unfortunately, it's a CyberBlade i1, which looks to be distinct from that
chip in the driver source i have here.

lspci -vv:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev
6a) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1

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Re: Tridentfb updates?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:49, Josh Myer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
> less-than-enlightening (I'm not familiar with X internals).
> 
> I'm basically just interested in getting FB working for NTSC output.

The chipset docs are freely downloadable from VIA (including the 3d
info). The TV on the epia is a seperate chip. I use the vesa mode switch
to program that

Re: Tridentfb updates?

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Nov 25 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:49, Josh Myer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got an EPIA board, with a trident CyberBlade chipset. Does anyone
> > have doco on this chipset? The random Xfree stuff available from VIA is
> > less-than-enlightening (I'm not familiar with X internals).
> > 
> > I'm basically just interested in getting FB working for NTSC output.
> 
> The chipset docs are freely downloadable from VIA (including the 3d
> info). The TV on the epia is a seperate chip. I use the vesa mode switch
> to program that

For the record, a friend of mine pointed me to:

http://epiafb.sourceforge.net/

today. fb sort of works, the mode initialization doesn't get the mode
quite right it seems, but a manual fbset works for me afterwards.

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Jens Axboe