XFree86 Cirrus Logic Laptop Configurations
XFree86 Cirrus Logic Laptop Configurations
It seems that quite a few people have had trouble getting various
laptops with Cirrus video chips to work with XFree86. This page
provides a number of configurations that have worked for people in
the past. If you have a laptop with one of these chips, try out
some of these configurations. There is no guarantee that they will
work, but one of them may need only minor modifications to work on
your machine. Please send me
additional configurations if you have one that works and it is
different than the listed ones.
7555 Configurations
- AST Ascentia 5200M 800x600 Display
- AST M5160X
7548 Configurations
- AST Ascentia P55 800x600 Display
- AST Ascentia A61+ 800x600 Display
- Compaq Armada 1585
- Compaq Armada 4130T and 4131T
- Compaq LTE 5000 Laptop with 1028x768 LCD Display
- Compaq 5280LTE Laptop
- Compaq LTE 5380 Laptop
- Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 Laptop
- Here is a
XF86Config file
for XFree 3.2 and 3.3 created by
Ray O'Leary.
Display has minor flicker and is completely corrupted on exiting X.
- Hitachi M120 (800x600x256)
- Keynote 9000 Laptop with 800x600 Active Matrix Display
- This is the
XF86Config file
that works for me with the XFree86 3.2A release.
- Here is
another XF86Config file
that also works and is a bit more aggressive. It has been tried
with no other releases besides the XFree86 3.2A release.
- Micron Millennia Transport
- Micron XPE Transport
- Here is a
XF86Config file
for XFree 3.2 created by Richard Clinton Whaley. It has been
reported to work with XFree 3.3 and newer Cirrus 7555 based
systems as well. However, in that setup, exiting X causes
the display to get messed up.
- Olivetti Echos Pro 133 D Notebook
- Shinada Top Class
- Twinhead Slimnote-6150cx
7543 Configurations
- Dell Latitude XPi P90ST
- Samuel Guyer modified
the XFree86 3.3 server to enable it to work at 16 bit depths.
This is the first time I've seen any claim of something that works
at 16 bit depths, so you might want to give this a try.
- 800x600 LCD Display
- 1 MB VRAM
- 16 bit depth works!
- XF86_SVGA.gz (Use shift-Button 1 to download)
- XF86Config
- source code patch
- Taiwanese Clone Notebook
- Others
-
If you are having trouble with a Cirrus Logic 7543,
Eric
Anders created an
X server
for Linux that works well for me.
The one problem is that it is an old a.out binary. As long as
you have an old libc around, it should work. This configuration
has worked for me on a Dell Latitude XPi 90
and a Sager 5200. Quite a few other people who couldn't get a 7543 to
work with the standard XFree86 release were able to get this to work.
- XF86SVGA.gz (Use shift-Button 1 to download)
- XF86Config
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