I have recently switched to RH 8.0, the install went great. One major problem, I have a black inch border around my display while in linux. I am new to linux, and I really would love to learn how to use it, but I need to see what I am doing first.

I am using a HPXH575 laptop, with Trident CyberbladeXP 8mb video card, does anyone know how to get the display to work?

In 8.0 you can adjust display with out going into X86config, but everything I try doesn't seem to work.

What should I try so that I DONT have to go back to Windows???



justinmroberts@hotmail.com
Please HELP

I've got a Trident Cyberblade in a laptop I have loaned out, I could track down the XF86Config on it in a day or so, but there's one thing you might want to worry about first, if RedHat shipped 8.0 with XFree4.2.0 or 4.2.1, I think its the former. Proppert support for the Cyberblade series only made it into X 4.2.1, I could never get that card to work properly under a 4.x.x. at all until 4.2.1.

Cheers,

Finegan

Finegan,

Thanks for the response, I have tried RH 7.3 and others, I have always gave up and had to go back to Windows. Right now I am dual booting, so I will have to use Windows until I can figure out how to setup X in RH 8.0. Keep me up to date if you find anything out. Thanks again for the response.

jroberts

Setting up the Trident in RedHat is going to be difficult as they haven't released on XFree 4.2.1, and you'll need that. If you want to try an out of the box Distro: Mandrake 9.0 released on X 4.2.1 and Slackware 8.1 is on 4.2.0, but upgrading to 4.2.1 is a joke as its in the patches section of any given ftp mirror. Here's a link to my XF, take note that you'll have to replace it with your laptop LCD's horiz and verts as well as your machine's PCI-ID. Most imporant to note is:

Option "SWcursor" "True" # [<bool>]

Which is the only way I could get the touchpad to work properly.

http://www.clockwatching.net/~fin/temp/XF-Trident.txt

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks for the help. So are you saying that an out of the box install like mandrake 9.0 that has 4.2.1 would be better, easier to config. Since I am new to Linux, could you give me a little more detail of what I do with you XF file. I am new to all of this.

Thanks,

jroberts

Since Mandy will have a driver for it, it should configure X for you out of the box, usually does a good job at that. If you were to install RH8.0, you could do a binary update of X, but its a little more involved... check out XFree86.org to see if you want to try it.

Cheers,

Finegan

have you tried different resolutions? 1024x768 works for me, but 800x600 gives me the black border. This is on a HP laptop with a Trident CyberBladeXPm.
It works at 1024x768 with all Linux distros I have tried: Slackware8.*, RH7.*, LFS, KNOPPIX.

I've got an HP Pavilion N5425 w/ Trident Cyberblade XP 8MB video, and I had to adjust RH 8.0's default X install to specify 24bit color @ 1024x768 to get a useable display.

Problem is the brightness is underpowered - even when I max out hardware brightness control, the laptop screen is somewhat dim, but still readable.

Any help resolving this???

UPDATE: Once I installed the latest kernel build via RH Update and rebooted, my screen works fine!