I have a Thinkpad 760XL, with a trident chipset and 800x600 flatscreen. The BIOS is not upgraded to the latest and greatest (I guess that shouldnt really affect native drivers in any way, at most it could add some VESA functionality?) since there is no battery in this, and that is required for a BIOS upgrade.
Ive tried using both the trident driver from xfree86 4.2.1 (both with and without recent fixes from alanh, even though those didnt seem to regard this particular chip, TGUI 9385 or 9383) and the trident-fb driver from the linux kernel, no luck with either of them. The framebuffer-driver seems to be getting some interlaced output, and the xfree86 makes the screen go unsynched. (white "noise" on the rightmost edge, and ill-synched-ness in general). I have tried several modelines from exactly, afaik, the same computer and screen, with no luck, Ive even tried tweaking them. Is there any way to "extract" a correct modeline from DOS when switching to 800x600 using VESA? I could write a simple program to do this, if I was only pointed in the right direction, I dont know if/how to extract timing values, if possible. Or could the problem be something else? (I got vesa-fb running, and Xfree86 ontop of that, but only after using UNIVBE and then loadlin to load the kernel, the bios didnt have linear-framebuffer capabilities by itself. This is also not fast in any way) --- John B�ckstrand _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
