On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:46:30AM +0100, Chris Tucker wrote: > OK, now it's getting seriously weird... > > We've got a touchscreen driver for X v4 (thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), so took the >plunge and installed Red Hat 7.1 (=kernel 2.4.2-2, XFree86 4.0.3). The Graphical >Install brought up a very nice display on our NEC 800x600 flat panel. In fact, I'd >almost swear it was displaying 1024x768, though the datasheet says that's not >possible... > More than likely, it's using the vesafb driver in the kernel, this method obviously lacks any acceleration.
> In the X Monitor configuration, the install program claimed to have a "DDC probed >monitor: APF0606", HSync 31.5-48.5, VSync 50-70, 16-bit colour, 1024x768. All very >nice, except that clicking Test Setting gave a black screen. Changing to 256 colour, >800x600, also gave a black screen. We went ahead with the defaults, i.e. APF0606 >1024x768, even though we've never heard of an APF0606 and the NEC panel doesn't claim >to support DDC... > > After the install completed, we booted in text mode. The command "X -ac" bombed, >with lots of the "sync - display should be between 8 and 24" errors. > > Inspection of XF86Config-4 showed no trace of APF0606 nor of any 1024x768 modes; >these details were in XF86Config. > > As I understand it, the Red Hat Graphical Install uses X; does anyone know what >settings it uses? And is it possible that the flat panel, despite its datasheet, was >actually sync'd to 1024x768?? > Like I say, it's more than likely using the fbdev driver for X that uses the vesafb driver in the kernel to setup modes. Alan. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
