Update... 2.6.2 is out. I'm running 2.6.2 tonight and vga=773 works again. (This was possibly OK in 2.6.1 -- I don't think I tried). Broadcomm has 7.1.22...
... If you have 1920x1200 try 838 ... The standard -in kernel- tg3 driver has been working just fine for me for a long time. ... What distribution are you...
... As far as I tried, 838 means 1600x1200, not 1920x1200. Do you know a mean to use full 1920x1200 resolution in framebuffer console ? -- Kilian CAVALOTTI |...
Kilian CAVALOTTI
kilian.cavalotti@...
Feb 5, 2004 9:20 am
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... Looking at the screen, it seems that you are right. At least it looks a whole lot sharper the these 793 or 794 resolutions. ... No. Cheers Mike...
... Thanks, I'll try that next time install the bootloader. ... Good testimonial, I welcome one less patch/pkg to maintain. ... I use slackware-current. The...
... As external modules I currently have the nvidia driver and ndiswrapper and one of the two messes up the kernel source tree, so that I have to reinstall the...
Hi, Has somebody else noted a weird loud noise from the harddisk just before poweroff with recent 2.6 kernels? It didn't happened with 2.4 kernels and it seems...
I think I'm close to a working setup. I'd love to see a sample .config and grub.conf. Currently root seems to be mounted read-only, a problem I've had with ...
Anybody know where I can get correct information about the modeline to use in XF86Config for the 1920x1200 D800 screen? Looking around here and elsewhere I've...
Anybody know where I can get correct information about the modeline to use in XF86Config for the 1920x1200 D800 screen? Looking around here and elsewhere I've...
Thought I'd post some results with 2.4.24: I've found that even with A05 bios, I still needed to replace the dsdt for newer ACPI versions: Linux-2.4.24 (no...
... I tried 5536 and had problems with dpms that were reported earlier: "xset dpms force off" does not turn the backlight off, and on the screen appear some...
... Did you try latest A06 bios ? -- Kilian CAVALOTTI | GPGKeyId: 0xD657340C BOFH excuse #203: Write-only-memory subsystem too slow for this machine. Contact...
Kilian CAVALOTTI
kilian.cavalotti@...
Feb 10, 2004 8:31 am
886
... My "final" results: I'm running Slackware-current (XFree86 4.3.0) and multi-boot 2.4.24 vanilla, 2.4.24 patched, 2.6.2 vanilla. 4496 -- worked great, but I...
... Don't worry. I already flashed my D800 bios with the latest 106, without a glitch. I just didn't had time to test different ACPI settings. For what I...
Kilian CAVALOTTI
kilian.cavalotti@...
Feb 11, 2004 9:03 am
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I just installed Suse 9 and changed the modeline to one people here are commonly using: Modeline "1920x1200" 162 1920 1984 2176 2480 1200 1201 1204 1250 It...
... Or, you could be like me. I spent a week trying to get my D800 working at 19200x1200. Eventually, I realized that I had purchased the variant that has a...
... Well, I didn't put it in fstab so can't help you there, but confirmed as /dev/sda in the docking bay. Thanks to this thread! Good tips on the usb cable...
... That's a bug in those distros, which assume that everyone has a floppy in their systems. ... If it appears as a scsi device, you don't need floppy support...
Emmanuel Thome just sent this in for our collective perusal - if he's right about S3 working, that would be ground-breaking, for me anyway. Emmanual, thanks...
Help! (and sorry for posting about this again, I'm desperate) I have copied others' working modelines for 1920x1200 into my XF86Config but it did not work on...
My stock RH9 install setup XF86Config using "vesa" instead of "nv", and with the vesa driver it would only run at 1024x768. Why dont you post your XF86Config?...
Has anyone tried this XFree86 nvidia patch? http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/ xfree86/patches/applied/xfree86-nv-backlight-2003-10-30.diff It...
... you ... Hi, well I have some improvement to report, I used monitor, mode, and screen sections from an XF86Config posted on usenet. I get higher resolution...
I wonder if your horizontal sync is too slow. Here's my Monitor section. The modelines are all one line. Section "Monitor" Identifier "SharpLCD" DisplaySize...
Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble with linux on my latitude. Can anybody tell me how to get an external keyboard recognized? It was working, then stopped, now...
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