[plug] Trident CyberBladeXP-based laptops

[Craig Ringer]

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). 

Yeah. I'm lucky enough that I've been able to borrow it to test :-) but 
was looking for any specific gotchas anybody knew about the series.

It runs under the trident driver in 4.2 (I've put mandrake 8.2 on 
because that's what I had lying around) alright, but the 2d accel is 
very limited, esp for window moving etc. I've downloaded a binary 
XF86-4.2 + driver by the trident maintainer that adds some more 2d accel 
but breaks Xv... still its looking alright so far since I assume the xv 
breakage is caused by the fact that I'm using a module compiled for a 
different X build. Built in wireless seems to work - but the 56k 
winmodem (of course) won't.

Thanks for the comment.