Laptops :: IBM Thinkpad 360CE



I'm at wits end trying to get X to work on this old laptop..the laptop is a 486 50mhz with 36 meg of ram (32 + 4 built int) and a 500 meg hd...I've tried vga=normal...fb800x600 etc...none of them will work for x...get the infamouse "fatal io error"...I think the display can do 640x480x4....using vga=normal is the ONLY mode that doesn't give me an error at bootup saying "you selected the wrong mode...hit enter for a list..etc"..and gives me selections like 80x24, 80x34 etc...says it's VGA on that screen.   That probably means 640x480 by 16 colors.   Any ideas?
Try substituting your "vga=normal" for on of these other values:

depth------640x480-----800x600-----1024x768-----1280x1024
256----------769----------771-----------773-------------775
32000-------784----------787-----------790-------------793
65000-------785----------788-----------791-------------794
16.7 Mill.----786----------789-----------792-------------795


For example, if you want 640x480x8bit(256 color), use "vga=769" instead of "vga=normal".

Also, here is the original frambuffer table in HEX numbers:

              Colours   640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
              --------+-----------------------------------------------------
               4 bits |    ?       ?     0x302      ?        ?         ?
               8 bits |  0x300   0x301   0x303    0x305    0x307     0x31C
              15 bits |    ?     0x310   0x313    0x316    0x319     0x31D
              16 bits |    ?     0x311   0x314    0x317    0x31A     0x31E
              24 bits |    ?     0x312   0x315    0x318    0x31B     0x31F


So if you REALLY wanted to try 16 colors, you would need to do something like vga=770

Then try the "xsetup.sh" command and choose the xfbdev server and then "startx" to launch xwindows.
cbagger01 !

Your above post would be good faq material !!

I have found this "chart" buried in the forums,
and searched vigilantly for it at times....

ke4nt
The wd90c24 chipset in the thinkpad 360ce needs the xfree svga server..it won't work with either the vesa or framebuffer servers....I tried deli linux and was able to get X going however I'd prefer to run DSL....can someone tell me the steps I need to do to use the xfree 3.3.6 or svga server with dsl?
well, I'm just  a newbie

I'm  trying to install dsl on a thinkpad 560. Here I  had the same problem with the X servers. Only 480x640x4 is working, though I know it can operate on 600x800x16.

I installed the complete x-window-system with apt-get (best you search for x-window-system, there are some very good posts on this topic), but I couldn't get the x-server running smoothly.

With slack 9.1 I found a X-config that worked even with the standard kernel (just for finding the config I had to compile a kernel just with vga and vesa support). With this config the complete screen was used, but some parts of the screen were inaccessable and others were behaving a little strange.

Until now I didn't find a solution to this problem, I'm stilling trying to get it working

Hope you have more luck with your tp.
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