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AnimalMachine
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 27 Apr 2002
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Location: Milwaukee, WI USA
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 Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 9:05 pm Post subject: Thinkpad 770 & XFree config probs |
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Has anyone gotten a Thinkpad with a cyber 9397 trident chip configured in XFree to use 16 or 24 bit color?
I can get mine working in 256 color mode fine, but in linux I can't get it to work in 16/24 bit color. Infact, after trying a few times to get it working in Linux, I all of the sudden couldn't get it to display properly in windows at 16/24 bit color! Ahhh! I had to go and 'initialize' through my BIOS and do the graphic test again for windows to work properly in 16/24 bit.
Anyone have any ideas?? I'm at my wits end.  |
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chadh
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Joined: 21 Apr 2002
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 2:48 am Post subject: |
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What did you use to configure it? It looks like XFree86 supported that laptop just fine for version 3.3.6.
If you haven't done it, the first thing I recommend is running
That will create a XF86Config.new file in your home directory. It will also give you a command to run to test that config file: | Code: | | XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new |
If it works, you will get a grey screen, with the X cursor in the center.
Failing that, take a look at http://www.linux-on-laptops.com .
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 4:14 pm Post subject: This sounds like a system BIOS limitation. |
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ivancan
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Joined: 10 Jun 2002
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:05 pm Post subject: 24-bit cool ! |
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Hi,
I have gentoo on a TP770, too.IN fact I removed Windows - too slow.
But I use only the 8bit mode, as my VMemory is only 2MB, is there an upgrade to 4?
16bit were a bit too slow for me.
And with 16bit I got only weird colours.
I know this doesn't help, but at least it could be good to know somebody else uses gentoo on a TP770. :) |
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