On Tuesday 20 August 2002 09:29 pm, Mike Labriola wrote: | | so, anyone have any idea whether this is a video card driver problem with | x? or an lcd compatibility problem with x? or just an XF86Config problem? | (starting to doubt that last one...)
I fear that I can't answer this question . . . | ps - as an odd side note, when i attempted to install redhat 7.3 on the | laptop, the graphical install worked fine (doesn't that use an x-server?) | and it even succeeded in testing the video settings... but when i started | up x after installing, it did the same thing. but still, why would | redhat's graphical install and x test thing work during the install? But I can answer this one. It uses a VGA X server. *That* uses a compatibility mode that is present in all graphics chips and it works everywhere. But it limits the display to 640x480 (or maybe 800x600). You could actually use this driver in the meantime to use it as a laptop, but I don't think you'd be satisfied running such a low resolution on your new laptop either. And frankly X (at least with most window managers) is really pretty painfaul--certainly less well-adapted than Microsoft Windows--at anything less than 1024x768. Still it might be a feasible workaround in the meantime. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
