Doing my usual trick of replying to myself so some other poor bastard
doesn't spend hours trying to fix the same problem.
The problem below **can** be fixed by using the frame buffer device (or
Option "noaccel") but the result is a very slow X server.
Do the following on a Toshiba 2520 CDS:
Xconfigurator --preferxf4 --expert
After autoprobing, select S3 ViRGE/MX from the list of cards
Choose "Generic Laptop Display Panel 800x600" (1024x768 does not work)
The rest is straight forward.
Andy
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>> Andy Eager wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been tearing my hair out trying to get X working correctly on
>>> my Toshiba 2520 laptop.
>>>
>>> I have tried a multitude of different video timings and have come to
>>> the conclusion that the problem does not lie within video timings.
>>> The generic laptop (800 x 600) setting behaves in exactly the same
>>> way as the standard VGA (640 x 480) setting.
>>>
>>> The problem is as follows;
>>>
>>> X starts up and seems to work OK. Whenever a window is moved around
>>> the screen (or text scrolls) a whole bunch of horizontal lines
>>> appear on the screen. There seems to be some kind of pattern when
>>> this happens: I can see the standard icons appear at regular spaces
>>> accross the screen (not clearly but they are there). For example
>>> the RedHat icon appears only once when the screen is still, but when
>>> a window is moved, it appears 'ghost like' another 2 times at equal
>>> intervals across the screen.
>>>
>>> I had a look at google and found only one reference to a similar
>>> problem: Here the author states that the frame buffer device seemed
>>> to fix the problem.
>>> Anybody got any ideas why this would work (haven't tried it yet) and
>>> whats going on in the first place?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Andy.
>>>
>>>
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