On Monday 19 July 2004 18:32, Warren Paul wrote:
> This you are gonna find real interesting. I went searching on the gentoo
> forums and found loads of people who have been having this similar problem
> with my laptop. And I found a guy that instead of giving X and undoable res
> like 1600x1200, he just simply didn't put in any mode and X came up with
> the same results as me. But what is peculiar is when I tried this for my
> self i noticed X defaulted to 640x480, which I know I tried and it did not
> do these results but rather gave me the white screen. So I tried it on my
> own by specifying the mode 640x480 and it gave me a white screen. Why would
> X do 2 different things like that?

Because it moves in mysterious ways? :) Serious though: these drivers are not 
that easy, and just from the ones I've looked at it's hard to predict exactly 
how each driver will react to certain inputs. Either that or I need to 
upgrade my programming skills. :)

Regards,

Pieter Hulshoff

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