I am using Compaq Armada M700 with Debian 3.0 and an ATI driver to 1024x768 and 32 bits. The image is perfect. GDM and GNOME have a very nice interface. In the lilo.conf I have this line:
vga=795 and the image in console is very good with small characters in colors. > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:04:28PM +0100, Lukasz W. wrote: > > I'm using Compaq Armada M700 with framebuffer device (standard linux > > VESA module). Framebuffer was used mainly to get a fancy boot logo as > > well as 128x48 screen resolution in text mode. For a while I was using X > > server (old 3.x.x) version for Mach64, which was quite fast, but I hed > > problems with switching into text mode (the screen got scrambled because > > server couldn't switch back into text mode). Now, when I'm using X > > framebuffer, coming back to text mode is ok, but... the server is > > painstakingly slow! > > > > What are my options? Should I come back to XF86_Mach64? What about new > > version (>4.x.x) of X - is framebuffer any better? > > I had similar problem with my IBM Thinkpad laptop (same graphic card). > After installing XFree 4.1 with fb compiled into kernel (in vesa mode) and > Xserver running in fb mode everything seems to be fine. ;) > > > Lukasz -- --------------------------------- Daniel Patón Domínguez Universidad de Extremadura E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://dpaton.unex.es ---------------------------------
