Problem with thinkpad 760xl, (Trident FB) TGUI 96xx
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I have a IBM Thinkpad 760XL, with a trident in it, giving this from lspci -v -v:
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident
Microsystems
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TGUI 9660/968x/968x (rev d3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
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Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at 08000000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=4M]Region 1: Memory at 08400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Region 2: Memory at 08800000 (32-bit,non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Expansion ROM at000c0000[disabled]
[size=64K]
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The tridentfb driver isnt working very good, the
output
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on screen is in some way interlaced in some odd way.
I
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have a .png here:
Forgot the link:
http://medlem.spray.se/sandos/thinkpad.jpg
The characters does seem to be solid in this jpeg, but they have every second scanline black/ displaced.
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I have also not been able to get Xfree 4.2.1 working, but that seems to be another problem, seems the modeline isnt right. The tridentfb driver seems to be more on course, since the screen is atleast stable,
not
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unsycnched "noise" as in X, only weirdly interleaved. Any ideas? Is this 760XL in some way different from others of the same brand, since others seem to have better luck?
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John Bäckstrand