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XFree v4.x & Tecra 720CDT



I have my Tecra 720CDT working fine with potato and xfree 3.3.x at 1024x768.  I
want to upgrade to woody and xfree 4.x, but I cannot get xfree 4 to work at
more than 800x600.  Has anyone sucessfully gotten either a 720CDT or 730CDT to
work with xfree 4.x at more than 800x600?  If so, would you share your
XF86Config-4 file with me?

Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:29:51PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:22:46PM +0100, lintux@lintux.cx wrote:
> >
> > I have more something of a hardware problem. My laptop works PERFECTLY.
> > (Dell Latitude XPi P133ST) It runs Woody for some days now, which is a nice
> > thing too. But yesterday the thing started to do strange things. It turns
> > itself off and can't be switched on again. When I try to switch the thing
> > on, the power and two battery LEDs blink (and also the keyboard LEDs IIRC)
> > but nothing else happens. But when I remove the cover etc and try again, the
> > thing works like nothing happened... Sounds like some sort of electricity
> > failure, but that doesn't explain the blinking LEDs. At least not to me.
> > (They don't blink when there is no battery/AC..)
> > 
> > Anyone else knows this weird behaviour? :-/
> 
> My Dell I3700 started doing something similar a couple of months ago -
> symptoms included:
> - sudden unexplained freezes - sometimes even while in the BIOS setup
>   at boot (!)
> - often failure to boot - but keyboard leds were trying to communicate
>   *something*.
> 
> I believe it was something to do with the screen, as I could
> *consistently* get it to crash/hang/reset by attempting to shut the lid
> - just moving it a few mm seemed to have a nasty effect. Running with
> the lid completely open seemed to help somewhat :-( Dell wanted 200 UKP
> just to do a diagnostic (past warranty), and repeatedly pointed out to
> no avail that Linux was not supported, while I was trying to explain
> about the hardware problems...
> 
> I never got a solution (apart from a brand-new laptop from my company),
> but I'm going to send it in to a local guy for attempted repairs.
> 
> Be sure that you have backups - sounds like your hardware is going
> bad...
> > 
> > 
> > Wilmer van der Gaast.
> 
> -- 
> Karl E. Jørgensen
> karl@jorgensen.com
> www.karl.jorgensen.com
> ==== Today's fortune:
> Linux!  Guerrilla UNIX Development     Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus.
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