Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
> did you do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and a
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-comon"?
Yes, I did. There was no noticable effect. I've looked into the files
and they seem to match well with my pre-existing files.
> also, what is your videocard? and how much ram does it have?
I have a Trident Cyber 9397, which is attached to my Thinkpad's PCI
bus. Windows says that the card has 4MB of RAM and continues to happily
run the display at 1024x768x32 (True Color). Interestingly, after
trying to run X in debian, the display is still messed up in Windows
2000 unless I do a hard reset. (I dual-boot. Windows 2000 pays the
bills, linux generates the fun. )
I can attach a copy of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log, if you'd like. It's
about 27KB.
> 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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