FIX: Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1

[David Bell <david@DB7654321.dyndns.org>]

This fixed the problem for me.  Thanks!!


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           From: 
Darin Strait
<darin_strait@yahoo.com>
             To: 
David Bell
<david@DB7654321.dyndns.org>
        Subject: 
Re: Thinkpad
770ED, Debian
Sarge, new XFree
4.2.1
           Date: 
Thu, 21 Nov 2002
19:22:33 -0500

> Ugh..  I'm having this same problem with my Thinkpad 770E.  Did anyone
> ever figure out how to fix it?

After fiddling with dpkg-reconfigure and hand-editting XF86Config for a
few days, I was on the verge of downgrading X. Then, I found the
following bugs in bugzilla:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=164446
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=163815

And I used the driver available at the bottom of the page:
http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/

I had to power-cycle my laptop before the fix took hold. A simple reboot
was not enough. 

Now, I have sane colors while using my on-board Trident 9397 card.

Thanks for everyone's help; I did learn a lot about how X works.


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