Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
wow......hmmm.....I am stumped then sorry....try apt-get remove
xserver-xfree86 and then comment out the sources in your apt sources that
you got x 4.2.1 from and get x from stable...see what happens when you go
back to 4.1....if it stays the same, I would have to think that you have a
hardware issue since it worked fine before.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darin Strait" <darin_strait@yahoo.com>
To: "Jeremy Petzold" <jpetzold@earthlink.net>
Cc: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
> I tried to uxe dpkg-reconfigure, but I never saw a question about the
> frame buffer. So, I went in and changed the
>
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
>
> to:
>
> Option "UseFBDev" "false"
>
> and:
> HorizSync 28-49
> VertRefresh 43-72
>
> to:
> HorizSync 30-70
> VertRefresh 50-90
>
> There was no noticable effect.
>
> What else can I try, short of removing all of my X packages and
> reinstalling everything? I assume that I'll have to reinstall anything
> that depends on X, like gnome, kde, openoffice, gnucash, etc., so I
> really don't want to do that.
>
> -d
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:49, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> > try not using the kernel frame buffer. reconfigure the xserver-xfree86
> > package and when you get to the part that asks about the framebuffer,
say
> > no. see where that gets you. some times that could hose your system.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeremy Petzold" <jpetzold@earthlink.net>
> > To: "Darin Strait" <darin_strait@yahoo.com>;
> > <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
> >
> >
> > > did you do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and a
"dpkg-reconfigure
> > > xserver-comon"?
> > > see if that fixes it.
> > >
> > > also, what is your videocard? and how much ram does it have? X allows
you
> > to
> > > specify more ram than your card actualy has if it is AGP and use
system
> > > resources to help in display.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Darin Strait" <darin_strait@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:21 PM
> > > Subject: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I let my machine upgrade to the new XFree packages tonight, and my X
is
> > > > hosed.
> > > >
> > > > X does run (it might even be a little bit faster :-/), but it seems
as
> > > > if it's picked an improper color depth for the hardware -- the
display
> > > > looks solarized, sort of. The colors are wrong, but I can manipulate
> > > > windows and my familiarity with my WindowMaker menu lets me remember
> > > > where my stuff is. Clearly, this needs to be fixed, though.
> > > >
> > > > XFree doesn't seem to care what color depth I run at -- at each
depth I
> > > > tried I find that my colors are slightly differently wrong. For
example,
> > > > my xload, which is usually a black graph on a white background is
now a
> > > > grey graph on a black background. At a different color depth, the
colors
> > > > would be different, but still wrong.
> > > >
> > > > One thing I notice is that what should be gradual fades from one
color
> > > > to another, through many subtle shades, (like title bars, or the
> > > > splashscreen from KDE) have been reduced to repeating patterns of
> > > > unsubtle shades.
> > > >
> > > > What to do? I'm only moderately clued-in as far as X goes, but I've
> > > > dpkg-reconfigured and apt-get remove/apt-get updated a few things
with
> > > > absolutely no progress.
> > > >
> > > > (I did fix my pex5 unresolved symbol error, though.)
> > > >
> > > > -d
> > > >
> > > >
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