Hi
I have a Toshiba Portege 7140ct, that comes with the infamous Cyberblade e4-128
card. The linux I run is Debian Sarge - testing. Kernel is 2.6.5. However I
tried it with many other distros and kernels, so that seems to be not the real
problem. Correct me if I am wrong.
I tried XFree86 versions 4.2 4.3 4.4. I also tried to use alanh's driver that I
found, trident_drv.o.
The problem is that the system runs well, but I get lockups ocasionally, and I
cannot do anything. If I am currently ssh-d into the laptop from another
machine, that client dies off as well. No message shows up in the
/var/log/messages or syslog files what so every. When the lockup happenes, the
screen freezes to the current displayed image. It wont black out, etc.
I have tried numerous configurations in the XFree86Config-4 file but none seems
to work. I tried to force it to use 16bit depth, but it still freezes. I
couldnt make any connection between events and freezes, so I coudlnt eliminate
what might have caused it. When I run the fbdev friver, and include the vga=791
line in lilo, all goes well, just the video is really slow. I cannot watch
DVD's etc. If anybody has a solution please let me know. If I can modify the
driver with anything at all, inform me please, so I can fix this laptop, as it
is crippled at this stage.
scanpci shows this:
pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1023 device 0x9540
Trident Microsystems Cyber 9540
Yes, it is recognized as a Cyberblade 9540. I dont know why.
Here is the current X config file, that I created by running the
xfree86 -configure
and modifying it a little, the mouse I have to modify, and include a horizsync
and vertrefresh commands, or the screen will be little.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
# Load "xie"
Load "pex5"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
#Option "SWcursor"
#Option "HWcursor"
#Option "PciRetry"
#Option "SetMClk"
#Option "MUXThreshold"
#Option "ShadowFB"
Option "CyberShadow"
#Option "NoMMIO"
Identifier "Trident Cyber 9540"
Driver "fbdev"
VendorName "Trident"
BoardName "Cyber 9540"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Trident Cyber 9540"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
EndSection
(END)
Thanks a lot
Ben
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