[plug] Mouse problems

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Sat Jan 25 12:07:40 WST 2003


> Yep its a trident thing. The cheaper msi main boards more specifically,
> msi 6378 have trident cyberblades on board.  
> The only way around it that i have found is to change the driver to vesa
> or to reboot all the time.
> Its a shame because those mainboards are good value but no good for X.

If its a Trident CyberBlade XP, its perfectly good for X. You'll need to 
install at least XF864.2 and then replace trident_drv.so with one from 
http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ .

I use it on my laptop, and all is happy. Without, I could only use VESA 
mode.

Craig



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