[Wylug-help] Debian, XFree86 and Trident Cyberblade/i1

[James Holden (Wylug)]

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RichardA wrote:
| I'm a wannabe Mandrake refugee (sick of re-installing every six months).
|
| I installed stable, upgraded to unstable, and all seemed well. Then I
| installed XFree86 and Gnome.
|
| I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, give what I think are sensible
| values, but Gnome locks up very soon after login, Nautilus crashes, the
| gdm login screen corrupts, or all three.
|
| This Cyberblade chipset is on a Via C3 mini-itx motherboard. Does anyone
| have a spare XF86Config-4 I could look at? Is there another config tool
| I should use?
|
| Richard
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I have one of these blasted chipsets on a mainboard in my spare machine.
I could only get it to work properly in 16-bit colour mode. 24 or 32
bits gave similar symptoms to the ones you describe.

I ended up replacing it with an Nvidia card, and that works a treat.

James

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