Re: X11R6[.1] on TP-560 at 800x600

[eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Christoph Eyrich)]

You might also try

linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu

just in case you don't get the expected answer. The above is a list
dealing with this kind of problems.

Christoph Eyrich

eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de



> I recently bought a 560 whilst in Montreal and now have it running FreeBSD
> (-current). However, whilst I've been able to get the current XFree 3.1.2E
> beta to happily run in 640x480 mode, I don't seem to be able to find a
> decent set of parameters for 800x600 :-(. Instead, I get about seven
> horizontal copies of the left side of the login xterm when using the
> "standard" VESA dot-clocks/scan-rates.
> 
> At first, I suspected that the "expansion" feature had something to do with
> this but I checked and it's disabled. I should also note that it has the
> DSTN screen rather than the active matrix.
> 
> The X-server properly detects the TGUI9660, 1 meg of video RAM, a max dot
> clock of 75MHz (or 80MHZ with the "med_dram" option, which I presume is ok
> for 70nSec video RAM) and using the "nolinear" option to switch off direct
> access to it doesn't help.
>