On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, J. D. Kent wrote:
> Greetings fellow penguins:
>
> I have an Epson NB-SL/20 (386SX) with a VGA mono LCD screen, on which I
> just got Slackware 3.1 up and running for the first time. I installed
> XFree86 3.2 with the VGA16 server. Superprobe reports the video chip as
> being a Cirrus Logic CL6410 with 768k of video ram.
If it is a mono screen, why don't you try the mono server. I'm not sure
this will fix your problems, but it will be a lot faster.
Frank
> When I try to run X using startx all I end up with is a blank screen.
> When I kill the server with ctl-alt-bspace the console text does not get
> refreshed. If I try to run XF86Setup I get a graphic screen, but the
> mouse (PS/2) is stuck in the upper left corner, and I can't interact
> with the program, and end up killing the server. However, I don't know
> if this is due to the overall X problem or something else.
>
> I have read through the man pages, the HOWTO's, the README's, and
> several web pages, including the linux on laptops site without much
> luck. I did find on the XFree86 site a list of recommended servers for
> certain chips, and it said that I should use the X32_SVGA with my video
> chip, but I still get the same results, so I went to the more generic X
> server.
>
> I have a feeling that the Hsync and Vertrefresh values are not correct
> for the LCD, But I can't seem to track down any source to find them. I
> have also heard that these values don't have as much significance with
> LCD screens, which makes sense, but I don't know. I currently have the
> values set at Hsync 31.5 and Vrefresh 60.
>
> Any clues on this one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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