On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tod Russell wrote: > Apologies for posting a newbie question, but I am > having problems starting X on a sony vaio fx705 laptop > (european model identical to a fxa59) running Mandrake > 8.2, and XFree86 4.2.0. When I run 'startx' I get a > speckled grey screen with a red box in the upper left > corner of the screen. I have modified lilo.conf to > pass 'vga=788' to the kernel (2.4.18 patched and > rebuilt with the acpi patch) as this seemed to work > for others running redhat 7.3, but not for me. I have > also commented out all modelines to use 'Native Panel > Mode'. Other details, 1400x1050 15" SXGA, ATI 3D rage > mobility m1. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Attached is my XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log.
Try 'Option "NoCompositeSync"' in the M1's "Device" section of yoyr XF86Config. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
