On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Bill Swingle wrote: > > > This laptop has what purports to be a ATI 3D Rage Mobility-M1 graphics > > > chip in it. It's supposed to be able to do 1400x1050. I was able to do > > > this resolution at 16bpp with 3.3.6 but it was slow as mud when moving > > > windows, etc.
> > > Running "XFree86 -xf86config path/to/XF86Config-4.2.1" creates this > > > madness on the screen: > > > http://dub.net/vaio/screen.jpg > > > As a side note before composing this email I checked out xf-4_2_99_3 and > > > tried to build it but the build died all three times I tried. The > > > world.log has crazy binary output at the bottom of it. Anyone that wants > > > to look at that can find it here: http://dub.net/vaio/world.log.gz > > > I'm going to attempt to build the newly tagged 4.2.99.4 and I'll repost > > > if I have any luck with that. > > That's a good idea. If that doesn't work, re-run the server with > > -logverbose 4 and send me the (large) log. > I'm still trying to build 4.2.99.4 and I'll let you know how that goes. > In the mean time the new verose log is at : > http://dub.net/vaio/XFree86.0.log This log shows that you are being bitten by a bug I have fixed since 4.2.1. The workaround is to specify Option "LcdSync" in the device section of your XF86Config. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
