Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

[root <mike.mcclain@fda.net>]

> From: mockingbird@ihug.co.nz (Chris Bannister)
> Subject: Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]
> Message-ID: <[🔎] 20070214034711.GL1645@kan>
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > > Mike McClain <mike.mcclain@nowhere.net>:
> > > >  I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on
> 
> Couldn't you just upgrade?
>
dialup takes too long I hear.
> 
> > > >  for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b
> 
> xorg might support the Trident tvga 9800b, but if its a critical
> machine, (which seems unlikely cause you are running X), then search the
> Internet to see if anyone is having trouble.
> 
> I have a "Cirrus Logic GD 7548" inbuilt video in this laptop, and the
> upgrade from xfree86 to xorg broke X. Eventually I realised the xorg
> driver didn't support the Cirrus Logic GD 7548 and worst of all, neither
> did the vesa driver.
> 
> I noticed on debian-release a request to allow xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> (1:1.3.0-1) to enter testing cause it "Fixes shadowfb."
> 
> I tried this new version, and yay X now works.
> I honestly thought that I had come to the limits of Debian support for
> old hardware. 
> 
> > > >  chipset is no longer supported in the xserver-xfree86 v4.3. 
> > mike@deb31:~> dpkg -P xserver-xfree86
> > mike@deb31:~> dpkg -i /CD/pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-svga_3.3.6-44_i386.deb
> >     /CD/pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-common-v3_3.3.6-44_i386.deb
> > mike@deb31:~> xf86config-v3
> > mike@deb31:~> edit /etc/X11/XF86Config:
> >     Clocks      25.17  28.32  44.90  36.00  57.28  65.03  50.34  40.00
> > mike@deb31:~> startx > /var/log/X11messages 2>&1 &
> > 
> > X starts with a resolution that has the tool bar off screen but 
> >     CtrlAlt+ a couple of times fixes that
> 
> What is the output of 'less /etc/X11/XF86Config | grep Modes' 
> Chris.
several copies of these lines:
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600"
However your asking the question caused me to wonder if the order affected
operation so I changed the first  line to:
        Modes       "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600"
and now X comes up in the desired resolution. 
Thanks, Chris.

Any idea why my gpm mouse doesn't work at the CL after starting X until
after stopping and starting it a couple of times? It is only a problem 
right after starting X, then once it's working properly at the CL I can 
switch back and forth between X and the CL with no more problems.
This happens in Sarge but not Woody or RH62. The mouse runs as:
    gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -r5 -3 -B213
and is in /etc/X11/XF86Config as:
Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

TIA, Mike