I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 which has a Trident
CyberBlade XP chip on it... Not sure about the "Ail" portion of that
description you gave... I have it install'd with XFree86 4.1.x from
'Woody' and works fine... Although I am runnin it in 1024x768 frame
buffer mode as I had problems with the 'trident' driver which states it
supports the CyberBlade XP chipset it had some problems and I just found
the frame buffer support easier and more portable for what I use it
for...
Jeremy
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:34:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that
> came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics
> adapter.
>
> I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following
> conclusions:
>
> * XFree86 (hereafter referred to as simply X) 4.2.0 appears to support the
> card, but only in framebuffer mode.
> * I also hear there is support in non-framebuffer mode, but it's
> unaccellerated.
> * Looking at the XFree86 site, they have just added accelerated support to
> the X 4.2.99 snapshot.
>
> So - I'm interested in getting the latest source and compling it myself.
>
> The problem is Debian.
>
> I have potato installed, which of course uses X 3.3.6 (which by the way isn't
> even supported by XFree86 anymore it's so old). There are no X 4.2.0 debs to
> be found for potato (hell, 4.1 for potato is still a development release!!),
> so that option is pretty much out. I'm not quite ready to switch to Woody
> yet although even if I did that wouldn't solve my problem.
>
> I can install the X 4.2.99 snapshot. My question is, what about Debian's
> dependencies? I plan on installing a large amount of X stuff (KDE,
> OpenOffice, etc.), and I know that those packages are going to have
> dependencies on X software. However, since I'm not installing from .deb
> files, how do I go about doing this? Is there a way to make it look like the
> packages are installed so I don't have to worry about X dependencies?
>
> And looking down the road (albiet probably more than a year from now) when
> there are .debs for X 4.3.0 (the upcoming release), what would I need to
> change to start using the .debs again?
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> -Jay
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