X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801

[d.wylie at hccnet.nl]

My Compaq Presario 1600 also freezes with the trident driver and XFree 4.3.0. and any 5.x. Was ok under 4.8, don't remember the XFree version.
Try "vesa" instead of "trident" and I think you'll be fine. I don't know the extent of speed disadvantages of vesa versus trident.
There've several disccusions concerning freezing trident systems, but I've never heard of a real solution yet. I'm just using the vesa driver for now, cvsup-ing often hoping for some-one to fix it.
Also check the XFree site for know bugs. There are a few concerning trident. oh, running at 24bit color depth works fine here.
I (and others, obviously) would much appreciate a _real_ solution. 

Dylan

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:01:27PM +0430,
>  Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at laperouse.internatif.org> wrote
>  a message of 608 lines which said:
> 
> > On a Sony Vaio PCG-F801, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, which comes
> > with Xfree 4.3.0.
> ...
> > When I use X, edition with Emacs makes the machine freezes after ten
> > or twenty minutes of use. The cursor no longer moves, Crtl-Alt-F1 and
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace are ignored. I have to reboot the hard way.
> 
> What I tried:
> 
> > (**) Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
> > (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "SysMouse"
> > (**) Option "CorePointer"
> > (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
> > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> 
> 1) Changing the protocol to PS/2 and stopping moused. X works but
> freezes
> the same.
> 
> 2) Testing with a color depth of 8 only. No change.
> 
> 3) I tried to test with the "svga" driver instead of "trident" but I d
> not find it in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. Is it normal?
> 
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