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