Hi, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > > HI, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have tried to install XFree on potato but I couldn't find my video card. > > I found a Neomagic MagicGraph 128 option, but mine is 256. > > I've got a vaio f-250 with that chip in it and I use xf86config to create an > XF86Config file for it.
I've got a Vaio F707, with a 256AV+ chip. The svga server (3.3.6) can't probe it so I just uncomment the "chipset NM2200" line in XF86Config and it worked. > > Which xserver should I use? I think it should be SVGA. > > Have somebody tried Framebuffer? Is it better than standard svga? > > svga works like a charm. I haven't tried Framebuffer but I'd love to know > your > experience with it. I've tried both. I didn't test them very much (no benchmark) but I prefer the SVGA since I can switch between 640x480 and 1024x768 modes. I also use the framebuffer for console mode (1024x768). By the way, when I use 24bits modes, I've problems with some programs : Netscape use monochrome buttons (but the documents are fine) Xearth don't run complaining about number of bits per color. I think it's a bug in the retrieval of the bpp number. Everything is OK with 16bits modes. > > And I don't know which horizontal or vertical refresh rates I have to set. > > BTW, I have a thinkpad 390E. > > hsync= 31.5-48.5 > vsync= 60 > > I then edit the XF86Config file. Delete any modes that aren't "1024x768" and > also any screen definitions that aren't "1024x768". Because of the way an > LCD works these aren't variable so you can't use the other modes (at least > I can't) and they tend to mess things up. > > good luck, > Andy > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- __ __Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA]________ __ |oo| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | |oo| <_)| | Campus II -- Bâtiment Sciences 3, bureau 364 | <_)| // \\ | Boulevard Mal Juin F 14032 CAEN CEDEX | // \\ (_| |_) | 02.31.56.73.98 / 33 +2.31.56.73.98 | (_| |_) |_\==/_| | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage | |_\==/_| `-------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------'
