Pedro Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > This usually happens on laptops with unsupported resolutions/frequencies.
> > Are you sure the settings (e.g. wanted resolution) of the two kernels were
> > the same?
> Just in case. First it seems that some "generic"
> resolutions/frequencies, seen on default X config files, are badly
> understood on some laptops. Screen gets seriously trashed in an ASCII
> rainbow.
Not real surprise..
> Besides I found an interesting feature on one notebook & recent
> XFree-4.0.1 builds (4.0 didn't seem to have it). On an ATI Rage 3D I had
> to COMMENT every reference to frequencies on the config file. It seems
> that that chip "understood" internally the presence of a LCD monitor.
> And X driver supported it. What lead me to this was the fact that X was
> giving some phrase of this kind: "found settings on config. Overriding
> chip internal (...) LCD monitor settings". I can't check that string
> now, but, by commenting the freqencies, I managed to run X in all
> supported resolutions/colors.
Ok, so this is for XF3, supposedly? XFree-4 config files should not have
frequencies specifications (e.g. modelines).
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