Dan McGhee wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
What's the video card model? Display resolution?
It's not a card. It's an ATI IGP 320/M chipset on my lap top main
board. When I was first using the livecd, I found a warning that I
had exceeded the video RAM--8Mb at 1024x728 at depth 24--the chip is
supposed to support 32 ( I know that's misleading.) Anyway I reduced
the depth to 16 when "startx" The resolution remained the
same--1024x728.
This chip is known to work perfectly in my friend's laptop. The amount
of RAM dedicated to it is configurable either in the BIOS or using the
VideoRam option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
This is why I originally thought it was something weird about my
laptop. When I had Mandrake 10.2 installed I had to do some really
creative things to make stuff run right.
If any of this helps, the info about the chip I have says to run ati
and radeon drivers. I tried this with livecd by reconfiguring X, but
I couldn't get the server to start. I wanted to build LFS more than I
wanted to fix X so I used the workaround.
Doesn't the LiveCD select the "ati" driver for this chip by default? If
not, it is a bug in Xorg, probably fixed in the latest development
LiveCD that isn't released yet (but you can build it yourself from SVN,
it takes 8 hours).
Also please don't regenerate the xorg.conf file from scratch as the book
says. Edit the provided /etc/X11/xorg.conf file instead. Please tell if
manually specifying the "ati" driver and the 'Option "VideoRam" 32768'
line helps.
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