Re: Cirrus Logic 5430 at 16 bpp and 800x600

["Oleksiy \(alex\) Bolgarov" <axb@myna.com>]

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> 
>         Hi debian users,
>         I'm having a problem setting a Cirrus Logic card model 5430 1Mb of RAM. It doesn't enter in XWindow at 800x600 at 16bpp. It complies about linear addressing that I don't know.
>         Anyone has this type of card?

Try to add the following line:

    Option "linear"

to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, under the 'Section "Device"' line
(see 'man XF86Config' for description of XF86Config file
format and what are sections in it).

And look at the file /usr/doc/X11/README.cirrus, this file
describes XFree86 support for different Cirrus Logic video
chips. There is stated that for VL-bus (you have a 486 computer
with VL-bus, don't you?), for 16bpp mode, linear addressing
is required.

On the other hand, if you have a PCI-bus computer, try
istead to add line

    Option "nolinear"

to the 'Section "Device"' - quite possible that your XWindow
complains about this...


alex