On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 @ 2:06am (-0700), Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

SJG> So I upgraded my _old_ notebook from 1.5x to 1.6x and things generally
SJG> are fine.
SJG>
SJG> X seems to be a problem though.  I got xf86config to
SJG> generate a new XF86Config and checked that the horizontal and vertical
SJG> frequencies were the same as I had with the old X.
SJG>
SJG> A very similar config is working fine on my desktop.
SJG> On the toshiba though X decides to use its builtin 320x200 mode.

I had massive problems with my Toshiba and my Digital on 4.2.0

Let's see your XF86Config.  Are you using the chips driver?

-lava

SJG> BTW the old X thought that the beast has 1024K of video ram, whereas
SJG> 4.2.0 thinks it has only 64K?  Setting VideoRam in the Device section
SJG> seems to be ignored.
SJG>
SJG> (**) VGA(0): Depth 8, (--) framebuffer bpp 8
SJG> (==) VGA(0): RGB weight 666
SJG> (==) VGA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor
SJG> (==) VGA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
SJG> (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 64 kBytes.
SJG> (II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
SJG> (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
SJG> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
SJG> (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
SJG>         compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0
SJG>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
SJG> (II) VGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
SJG> (==) VGA(0): Virtual size is 320x200 (pitch 320)
SJG> (**) VGA(0): Built-in mode "Generic 320x200 default mode": 12.6 MHz (scaled from
SJG>  25.2 MHz), 31.5 kHz, 70.2 Hz (VScan)
SJG> (II) VGA(0): Modeline "Generic 320x200 default mode"   12.59  320 336 384 400  2
SJG> 00 206 207 224 vscan 2 -hsync +vsync
SJG> (==) VGA(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
SJG>
SJG> Anyone got this working?
SJG>
SJG> Thanks
SJG> --sjg
SJG>

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