I've managed to muck something up. . .

[Amir Tal]

On Saturday 21 September 2002 14:32, Terry wrote:
> Yes, it's a Trident CyberbladeXP. . .unfortunately it's a laptop so
> replacing it is not an option.  Perhaps switching to the generic vesa
> drivers would help?  I was running Mandrake 8.0 on it without problems
> which used the vesa drivers.  .  .I think.  Guess this will teach me to try
> RedHat, eh? (7.3)

this had nothing to do with the distro you are using. if the card worked in 
mandrake with the vesa drivers, all you have to do is install and activate 
the same drivers in your X server here. (assuming that the same X version is 
being used as the one in mandrake, with the same drivers.)

tal.


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Cassidy" <mail at lezek.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [kde] I've managed to muck something up. . .
>
> On Saturday 21 Sep 2002 11:00 am, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > you're using a trident graphics card, right?
>
> ok, that wasn't a very useful response :)
>
> If you're using a Trident graphics card, this is a known bug in the driver
> and
> has nothing to do with KDE. I don't know if this is fixed in a newer
> version of XFree86, but I doubt it. Trident cards are *very* bad anyway, if
> you want my advice get a better card from ebay.
>
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