Re: Trident chips misidentified?

Alan Hourihane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:08:53AM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> I am trying to chase up a bug report I made a week ago:
> 
> IBM Thinkpad 560E, X 4.2.1
> 
> X hangs on entering standby and box will not power up again. Laso
> happens on switching to CRT from LCD.
> 
> I have just noticed that the log shows the Trident chip has been
> misidentified. Is this a possible cause?

No. Trident decided to give the same PCI id to multiple chipsets at
one point. Not a very good idea. It was fixed with later chips but
we have to re-detect them later in the driver.

Anyway, to your problem. Change your 'VertRefresh' parameter in your
XF86Config file to 60.

Alan.
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