Re: [Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-09-04 Thread Joshua D. Knowles
Dear Mike, You are my saviour! Yes, this works perfectly - I have a full resolution 24 bit display under X now. Do you know anything about power managment by any chance? Just kidding... I shall put a line or two on a website for others who may experience the same problem. Thanks a lot for

Re:[Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Knowles
I'm still having the same problems with my display... It looks like X fails to setup video mode correctly. When you use hotkey you actually have BIOS switching modes and it should do this task correctly. What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say ? Vladimir Dergachev

Re: [Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-09-03 Thread Mike Labriola
Joshua D. Knowles wrote: I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on my Vaio notepad. Everything works except for the display, which has the following strange behaviour. If I do startx then I do not get a functioning display and I have tried lots of different settings in Xconfig - none work when I

[Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Knowles
I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on my Vaio notepad. Everything works except for the display, which has the following strange behaviour. If I do startx then I do not get a functioning display and I have tried lots of different settings in Xconfig - none work when I probe. HOWEVER, if I do startx

Re: [Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-08-30 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on my Vaio notepad. Everything works except for the display, which has the following strange behaviour. If I do startx then I do not get a functioning display and I have tried lots of different settings in

Re: [Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-08-30 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on my Vaio notepad. Everything works except for the display, which has the following strange behaviour. If I do startx then I do not get a functioning