> My graphics card is a Trident Cyber 9397... > > anyone have any suggestions on how to setup SVGAlib for my laptop, so I > don't get the *very* scary melt/streak screen of destruction?
You need to edit the file /etc/vga/libvga.config. In *theory* it should autodetect your card but in *practice* it does a poor job. There are numerous lines below commented out that list the magic names of the chipsets. In your case I'd try TVGA and if that doesn't work use VESA. I don't have direct experience with that Trident flavor to know which it will be, but I can tell you that on my CT65555 I had to explicitly say "VESA" and then JPEGs stopped causing whiteouts. Until that I got out of whiteouts by issuing a request to change to a text console (blind), suspending the box, and reawakening, because on mine that seems to issue a video reset. > thanks for any help you can give me > > Alex > > PS. this is not being done for movies (although it would be nice, I know > I flamed about linux/multimedia a few weeks back), its more so that I can > squeeze a littl' more battery time out of my laptop :) I also changed /etc/inittab so that runlevel 2, the default, only launches 2 text console gettys and has more in higher runlevels. That way I don't waste CPU ticks on gettys I don't need. Likewise I don't use xdm so X is only running if I explicitly issue startx. And I have another runlevel (4) reserved to turn on all the networking things, eg. localhost webserver, sendmail, etc. Plus, anytime I'm not using my pccards I run 'cardctl eject' after resume. Or, you can doctor /etc/apm/event.d/pcmcia to honor a new keyword besides "suspend" and "eject" that always ejects on suspend, but doesn't insert the cards on resume. Don't forget one you have a new word to tell it to use the new plan, in /etc/pcmcia/apm.opts. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
