Re: framebuffer

[Andy Bastien <lists@yuggoth.net>]

You'll probably have more luck with the SVGA driver.  I don't know which
winmodem is in your particular laptop, but it might work; you can find a
listing of the ones that do at http://www.linmodems.org .  The few
laptops that run Linux where I have had the opportunity to check what
they claimed their refresh rates to be have claimed to run at a vertical
refresh of 60 Hz, so the timings that come with the default X
configurations should work for standard resolutions.  You're right that
they don't have an electron beam and don't use the timings in the same
way as a CRT; I don't know if they just ignore the refresh rate or if
they use it to synchronize with the graphics card in some manner.

On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 17:00, Gabor Nagy wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Do anyone use framebuffer on something like this:
> ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64)
> This is a Compaq Armada M700, if maybe someone else has the same (what
> about the built-in winmodem then?)
> 
> The ati mach64 fb driver starts happily with this card, but all I got
> was the whole panel going white.
> 
> I could log in (without seeing a thing) changed the videomodes with
> fbset, but couldn't get a barely readable output.
> 
> Do you know anything about possible differences between a CRT and an LCD
> display timings? I suspect I wouldn't need all that information related
> to an electron beam.
> 
> Regards
> Gee
> 
> 
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