Re: help configuring video display with ibm r30 and debian 3.1

[David <nogates@sindominio.net>]

Hi:

El Lunes, 26 de Septiembre de 2005 12:35, Daniel Brewer escribió:
> Hello I can not seem to configure X Server to display on the full screen on
> my IBM R30 laptop..
>
> I have tried to find other people who have configured this
> (http://www.uhoreg.ca/thinkpadr30linux.text) but I just can't get the
> display to expand to the full screen of the display...can anyone help?

Could you copy the XFree configuration file? (/etc/X11/XFree86)

You have to specify the video modes avaibles for your graphic card... Some as 
this:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Generic Video Card"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection

Regards!

>
> Here is some output regarding the video card..but I just cannot seem to get
> it working..
>
> lspci -vv excerpt:
>
>   01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems: Unknown device
> 8620 (rev 5d) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>           Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0502
>           Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>           Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>           Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>           Region 0: Memory at 80800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
>           Region 1: Memory at 80500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=128K] Region 2: Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=8M] Expansion ROM at 80520000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>           Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0
>                   Status: RQ=32 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
>                   Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
>           Capabilities: [90] Power Management version 1
>                   Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                   Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
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