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From Trey A Ethridge (tale at juno dot com) on August 2, 2001
Hello,
First let me say thanks for the article that you posted for Linux
Laptops. I have a KDS 6480CiPTD. It came with 128MB Ram, 20GB hard
drive, and a PIII 800Mhz chip. I really like it, especially for the
price! I had the most problems getting that stupid video card to work!
I installed Red Hat 7.1. The install went fine, but I couldn't get the
X
server to start up. Even with your XF86Config-4 file. I'm not sure
why
that was. What worked for me was to run "# XFree86 -configure", which
successfully recognized the Trident Cyberblade Ai1. By the way, I'm
using the default X server that comes with RH7.1 (XFree86 version 4.1 I
believe). The previous command quickly creates a new XF86Config file
and
puts it in your home directory. Then I tested it out with, "# XFree86
-xf86config /root/XF86Config.new". The server started fine, but I had
to
shut it down with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and add in the line to use 16 bit
with the 1024x768 mode. I also had to change the monitor section to
what
you had in your config file.
I feel pretty good about finally get it working. Thanks in part to
you,
so thank you. I'm still having a problem with the sound though. It
sort
of works. The problem is that if I'm listening to xmms, the music will
play for a little while and then it will fast forward ahead through the
song. Then it starts playing again. It does this over and over again
while the song plays. I've noticed that it sort of clips the startup
sound for kde sometimes too. I'm not really familiar with configuring
the sound on a Linux system, so I was wondering if you could tell me if
you have the same problems. If you've fixed these problems, could you
tell me how you did it? Either way, could you respond and tell me
where
to start looking for the problem?
Thanks again for the article. Feel free to summarize my experience and
include it on the site if you want to. I don't mind. I've included my
XF86Config-4 file for you.
Sincerely,
Trey Ethridge
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Mouse0"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Buttons" "7"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
#EndSection
#Section "Monitor"
# Identifier "Monitor0"
# VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
# ModelName "Monitor Model"
#EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 50-70
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
Option "SWcursor"
#Option "PciRetry"
#Option "NoAccel"
#Option "SetMClk"
#Option "MUXThreshold"
#Option "ShadowFB"
#Option "Rotate"
#Option "VideoKey"
#Option "NoMMIO"
#Option "NoPciBurst"
#Option "MMIOonly"
Option "CyberShadow"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Trident"
BoardName "CyberBlade/DSTN/Ai1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection