Hi,
I have just tried to run XFree86 4.3.99.901 on a Dell Inspiron 8500 with
a GeForce4 Ti 4200.
Globally it works well, except for three things:
1) Although X detects the graphic chip (the log says: (--) Chipset
GeForce4 4200 Go found), when I run XFree86 -configure the chip's
correct name is not written in XF86Config.new:
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
2) I could not get the integrated flat panel (1680x1050) working
without explicitly adding a specific modeline:
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
However, X correctly detects my flat panel:
(--) NV(0): Panel size is 1680 x 1050
(--) NV(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(==) NV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00 kHz
(II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00 Hz
(II) NV(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 350.00 MHz
But it lacks a default 1680x1050 mode, so it defaults to 640x480. Maybe
adding a default 1680x1050 mode would help Dell laptop users who don't
want to bother with modelines (or aren't skilled enough) ?
3) When I switch back from graphics mode to text mode, the text display
is messed up: the display is not correctly centered, one pixel out of
two remains off, and horizontal lines appear when some text is printed
on the last line.
Here is the lspci output corresponding to my graphics adapter:
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0286 (rev a1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti
4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer
Corporation: Unknown device 0179 Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop,
66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
[size=64M] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
Best regards, congratulations for the great work done so far.
Christophe Jacquet.
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