I still use my Toshiba Portege R100 with the trident chipset on Karmic
9.10.
The bug listed 'window contents garbled when dragging' no longer
occurs, the only issue that remains is when the lid is closed and the
re-opened, the desktop is 'enlarged' so that what fills the screen is
roughly the top
Hey tehdon,
thanks for the vlc tip - that worked. Easy when you know how eh?
Alan
On 6/13/07, tehdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm confused. Balaji, are you saying that we should be using the nVidia
> driver for our Trident XP4/32m chipsets? I would suspect that if you indeed
> tried that t
The above workarounds worked for me I'm glad to say, however, can
other people confirm that video playback still doesn't work?
When attempting to play video (in vlc for example) I just get a blue
screen, interestingly though video from youtube etc. (ie. flash based)
works fine.
Thanks,
Alan
On
As I read your mail I've managed to get it working!
I skipped the build-dep line and ran sudo make install which produced
the .so file. I swapped it out and restarted X and all is well.
Almost, I don't seem to be able to play video but I'll look into that.
Is build-dep xorg-server an essential st
Stefan,
when you say you ran the line
apt-get build-dep xorg-drivers
did you mean...
xorg-driver-fglrx
xorg-driver-fglrx-dev
these are the only packages I can see that have a similar name. I know
it says theay are for ATI cards but I'm not sure what else to try.
Thanks again,
Alan
On 11/11/
Hi Stefan,
looks good - glad you got it working. I ran into a problem though
after I ran the line
apt-get build-dep xorg-drivers
I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep xorg-drivers
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: U
After a few emails I discovered that there is a bug in the version of
the Trident drivers that ship with Ubuntu and a fixed version is
available (thanks to Alan Hourihane) from the following url...
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-trident-1.2.3.tar.bz2
http://xorg.
I too have a Toshiba R100 with the XP4m32 Trident graphics chip, I'm
getting the same problem with scrolling. It seems ok when scrolling down
a list or page but when scrolling up it doesn't update properly. Things
get worse when I drag a window, the whole pane gets broken up in
diagonal colours cor
