[plug] Trident CyberBladeXP-based laptops

[Mark Tearle]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, John Knight wrote:

>
> i haven't used the specialised drivers yet, only the VESA standard on my
> dad's laptop with an ali 64 cyberblade xp (i think it was called, i know
> it's a cyberblade xp though), under suse 7.3, i could only reach 800*600 on
> the laptop, but i'm running redhat 7.3 on the machine with no real issues,
> in 1024*768. again, that's using vesa standard drivers and it won't like it
> in 24 bit colour, keep it in 16 (same with windoze, even using specialised
> drivers).
> anarchist tomato
>
> >Hi
> >Anybody got a laptop based on the CyberBlade XP video chiset? I'm
> >looking at getting one and was wondering what experiences people have
> >had with it and linux. So far looks... alright. Trident won't release
> >video drv specs so its 2d only but that should be alright - though
> >annoying. The laptop in question is a Toshiba 4600 with built-in
> >wireless NIC :-)

You'll definitely want to install XFree86 4.2.0 at any rate; it fixed
my problems (DVD playback not really working correctly)

Yours
Mark
PS.  I'm using the Debian beta packages via:
	http://mobilix.org/debian_xfree42.html
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