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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