CyberBlade i1 and RHL72 (Compaq Evo150)

sx10 · 08-31-2002, 05:03 AM

Anybody know how to XConfigure an Evo150 Laptop for use with RedHat 7.2 under VMWare 3.1? I get a load of funny messages from XFree86 and XConfigurator says no can do. The list of adapters has no entry for Trident Cyberblade i1, just a General.
At startup runlevel 5 is set but reverts to 3 after a while.
All black and text mode it is.

finegan · 08-31-2002, 05:17 AM

Its not just vmware. The Trident Cyberblade is one of those zero documented cards so the XFree guys haven't gone very far in working on it. I only ever got it to work right with XFree86 3.3.6, but didn't put a lot of effort into it. Whenever I ran the autoprober: /usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -configure, it hung the machine.

This was under XFree 4.1.0 though, which is what you have, but 4.2.0 is available and I never tried it.

Luck,

Finegan

sx10 · 08-31-2002, 05:25 AM

I tried to run XFree86 -configure and then execute the subsequent file which is generated but sure whines about VMWare and some settings. Seems hopeless...

sx10 · 08-31-2002, 08:36 AM

Sorted out! VMWare mounts a fake CD when asking to install utilites and there is a tar file that when untared and executed installs the drivers to match your hw and sets X86Free up.
Need help, ask me!