Re: Black screen with XFree86 on laptop
I too have had some initial problems with Neomagic chips, but have not
used the 2160.
Anyway, someone got the 2160 working fine here:
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/xfree-bsd.txt
Also, the Inspiron 3200 page has an XF86Config and other goodies:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jcb35/linux/i3200.html#x
Hope these links help,
Damien
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:21, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> Hi,
> after I got my web server up and running, I was encouraged to try
> another challenge: To give my old laptop, an aging Dell Latitude
> CPi266XT, a new life with Woody.
>
> Everything worked fine until I started messing around with the GUI,
> which initially came up with an 800 by 600 resolution that looked awful
> on the 1024x768 LCD. I then tried to manually change some of the
> settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, notably the color-depth which I
> initially had set to 24 bits but actually is only 16 bits.
>
> I've run the "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" utility for a number of
> times from a remote tty with various options and subsequent reboots, but
> I end up with a black screen unless I use the kernel framebuffer, in
> which case I get a beautiful 1024 by 768 desktop where nothing happens.
> In every case, an inspection with top from the remote tty shows that the
> XFree86 process slurps 98% of the system resources.
>
> The video controller is a NeoMagic 2160 with 2MB RAM. It works ok with
> Windows 2000.
>
> I'm totally in the dark here. Can anybody offer a hint?
>
> regards,
> --
> Leif Biberg Kristensen
> http://solumslekt.org/
> mail to leif at solumslekt dot org
--
Damien Solley
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