2010/1/11 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> 2010/1/10 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>:
>>> What are you doing? If it's xorg -config <fn>, did you add the -retro
>>> flag?
>
>> Driver "ati"
>
> This is really the only important part.
>
>> Also forgot to mention that this is a TFT monitor.
>>
>> Will try running xorg -config in case my xorg.conf
>> is too old.
>
> You don't need to run twm to see if X works, just
>
> X -retro -config ~/xorg.conf.new
>
> or you can check the just with
>
> X -retro -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> You get a gray background and an X. C-BS to exit. You can at least see
> if the brightness looks right.
Gave that a try after sending the mail, looked good.
I'll take your word for the exit (I only build evdev, the default
uses kbd and mouse for the input drivers so I had to reboot),
>
> Xorg -configure
>
> will tell you what kind of video card X finds. Look at ~/xorg.conf.new
>
> -- Bruce
> --
First difference was it uses "radeon" instead of "ati" but
that made no difference (not surprising, it's the same
driver).
Second difference was a load more modules. Might be
useful, but testing proved they are not relevant to the
problem.
I noticed that the new conf file only specified
Viewport 0 0
Depth n
(for various values of n)
whereas I'd been forcing 16-bit (thought to be
faster at some time in the past) and specifying
a number of Modes (of which only 1600x1200
worked).
Tried setting the Viewport and specifying Depth 24
and everything looks good, so I can again see
what I'm replying to.
Bruce, thanks for prompting me to use the
configure options. Based on past experience,
I'd started by assuming something was buggy.
ĸen
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