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Re: 22" apple flatpanel



On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:17, Adam H. Done wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:45, P Oscar Boykin wrote:
> 
> > If you can't see a tty, then you can't use X (from what I have seen).
> > So the first problem is make sure you can see the tty.  It may work
> > using the video line suggested in the SUSE page above. 
> 
> Ok.. I  got it to boot into linux just fine and it looks great using
> suse's sugestion.   Now the roadblock is starting X.  I  made the
> changes... and still no go.. the display turns off and I have to
> switch to another tty and back to the orrig tty and control-c and it
> quits.  The errors are included at the end... 

Nothing serious AFAICS. We need to see the log.


> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. Rage 128 GL [RE]"
>         Driver          "r128"
>         BusID           "PCI:0:16:0"   ## Card #1 agp slot
>         Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
> #       Option          "dpms"

This looks OK.

>         Videoram        16384
>         Screen          0
>         VendorName      "ATI"

These are superfluous. They shouldn't hurt, but...

> #       Option          "backingstore"  ## not to sure if this works
> 
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier      "ibmp260"
> #        HorizSync       31.5-107
> #       VertRefresh     60-86
>         ModelName       "P202"
>         VendorName      "IBM"
>         Option          "DPMS"
> EndSection

It's possible that it uses the the default HorizSync and VertRefresh
ranges and rejects the custom mode because it's outside? The log will
tell.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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