Display problem

Jose jose-vS8X3Ji+8Wg6e3DpGhMbh2oLBQzVVOGK at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 28 13:51:32 UTC 2006


Jeremy Baker wrote:
> On Thursday 28 September 2006 09:17, Jose wrote:
>   
>> Hi there
>>
>> I just installed Suse 10.0 64 on a Sun V40z attached to a HP TFT 5600
>> console (video, keyboard, mouse), everything was going ok, until I went
>> for the initial reboot after the installation of the packages (by then
>> Inknew I had to switch to 1024x764 from the initial gui with F3), and it
>> wouldn't give me a gui afterwards, the display would go blank, thinking
>> it was a driver problem I switch to text installation and everything
>> went fine, but after first reboot post installation, same thing not gui
>> at all, I switch to not gui and text logon and I can get to the server
>> now and logon but it wont startup startx, only does it if I run the
>> server as failsafe mode, it tells me there is a trident card in it and
>> display wonderfully using failsafe, but if I go back to normal mode, it
>> would go blank.
>>
>> I upgraded anything I could on failsafe mode and everything went ok
>> hoping it would update the display drivers, but nothing still wont
>> display anything on normal mode, I am attaching below the actual
>> xorg.conf file
>>
>> I looked for trident drivers as it declares there ias one on that sun
>> server, but nothing on the net, or if somebody has
>> any other ideas, all would be welcome
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>
>> Jose
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> # /.../
>> # SaX generated X11 config file
>> # Created on: 2006-09-27T11:35:52-0400.
>> #
>> # Version: 7.1
>> # Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax-l3A5Bk7waGM at public.gmane.org>, 2002
>> #
>> # Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
>> # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
>> #
>> Section "Files"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
>> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
>> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
>> FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>> Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> Load         "freetype"
>> Load         "type1"
>> Load         "dbe"
>> Load         "glx"
>> Load         "extmod"
>> Load         "v4l"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Driver       "kbd"
>> Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
>> Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
>> Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
>> Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
>> Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Driver       "mouse"
>> Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
>> Option       "Buttons" "7"
>> Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>> Option       "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer
>> Mouse"
>> Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
>> Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
>> Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>> DisplaySize  340 270
>> HorizSync    28-60
>> Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
>> ModelName    "1024X768 at 60HZ"
>> Option       "DPMS"
>> VendorName   "--> LCD"
>> VertRefresh  50-60
>> UseModes     "Modes[0]"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Modes"
>> Identifier   "Modes[0]"
>> Modeline     "1024x768" 61.89 1024 1080 1184 1344 768
>> 769 772 794
>> Modeline     "800x600" 36.88 800 832 912 1024 600 601
>> 604 621
>> Modeline     "768x576" 33.74 768 792 872 976 576 577
>> 580 596
>> Modeline     "640x480" 23.06 640 656 720 800 480 481
>> 484 497
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> SubSection "Display"
>>   Depth      15
>>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
>> "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>>   Depth      16
>>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
>> "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>>   Depth      24
>>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
>> "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>>   Depth      32
>>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
>> "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>>   Depth      8
>>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
>> "640x480"
>> EndSubSection
>> Device       "Device[0]"
>> Identifier   "Screen[0]"
>> Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> BoardName    "9880"
>> BusID        "1:5:0"
>> Driver       "trident"
>> Identifier   "Device[0]"
>> Screen       0
>> VendorName   "Trident"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier   "Layout[all]"
>> InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
>> InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
>> Option       "Clone" "off"
>> Option       "Xinerama" "off"
>> Screen       "Screen[0]"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "DRI"
>>   Group      "video"
>>   Mode       0660
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
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>
> You might want to post this question to SLE <suse-linux-e-IBi9RG/b67k at public.gmane.org>
>   
Hi

Thanks, I am looking more for a trident 9880 linux driver as I believe 
that the root of the problem, if anybody knows their site or hints where 
I could get drivers for those kind of video crads it would be really 
helpfull

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