On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:25:47AM +0100, Chris Tucker wrote:
> No, it's not on an NEC machine; we're using the Aaeon Gene-4310 sub-compact board,
>which is a Geode design (very nice).
>
> I can't / don't want to upgrade to 4.x yet because we're using a Dynapro NFI
>touchscreen and its driver is only certified for 3.3.6. Of course, it may well work
>on 4.x, but I'm hoping to get everything working before attempting to upgrade X to v4.
>
> An update: I couldn't find my error message ("sync - display should be between 8 and
>24") in the X documentation, but I tried adjusting the modeline to read:
>
> "800x600" 39.06 800 816 896 1024 600 601 603 625
>
> This at least gives an X display (in response to "X -ac"), but on returning to text
>mode, the display is clearly unhappy, and a second "X -ac" stops the system dead (no
>response to any combination of keys pressed).
>
> I've worked through the X Video Timings Howto, and also tried the online modeline
>calculator, but it seems that flat panels are much fussier than multi-syncs.
>
Indeed they are Chris. If you've managed to get an X display with the
above modeline, then the final problem of restoring text mode, could
well be that of a driver fault.
You could try running 'consolechars -d' blindly when you return to text
mode to see if it really is just a problem with restoring text.
Alan.
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