Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

["Seneca Cunningham" <seneca@slemish.com>]

ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and
that's
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have
been
> >
> > able
> >
> > > > to find out about the video setup is that it has a Chips and
> >
> > Technologies
> >
> > > > 65545 video chip.
> > >
> > > i used to have a toshiba laptop with a 65545 v-chip that balked at the
> > > virtual screen settings. the only way it would run was with no virtual
> >
> > screen
> >
> > > settings specified. that was in x3, but maybe you could check that.
> >
> > Mine worked with the virtual screen settings in X3. The only times I had
> > problems with that was when I set the settings too high, and that was
> > because I only have 1024K video RAM.
> >
>
> don't know any more than that. did you configure the kernel you're
running?
> maybe a google search for x4 + 65545 might reveal something pertinent.

After checking that, I didn't find much of anything about the problem... but
I did find some sites that I could order a 386SX on a board with the 65545
for its video.

Thanks for any help,

Seneca
seneca@slemish.com