Laptops :: Thinkpad 765L
ok this is the output for Xvesa -listmodes
VBE version 1.2 (Cppyriight 1994 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC.)
DAC is switchable, controller is VGA compatible
Total memory: 2048 kilobytes
0x0006: 640x200x1 (monochrome) planar (1 planes)
0x000D: 320x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x000E: 640x200x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0010: 640x350x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0011: 640x480x1 (monochrome) Planar (1 planes)
0x0012: 640x480x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0013: 320x200x8 PseudoColor
0x0116: 1024x768x15 TrueColor [5:5:5:11] (no linear framebuffer)
0x0117: 1024x768x16 TrueColor [5:6:5:0] (no linear framebuffer)
0x0113: 800x600x15 TrueColor [5:5:5:1} (no linear framebuffer)
0x0114: 800x600x16 TrueColor [5:6:5:0] (no linear framebuffer)
0x0110: 640x480x15 TrueColor [5:5:5:1] (no linear framebuffer)
0x0111: 640x480x16 TrueColor [5:6:5:0] (no linear framebuffer)
0x0105: 1024x768x8 PseudoColor (no linear framebuffer)
0x0100: 640x400x8 PseudoColor (no linear framebuffer)
0x0101: 640x480x8 PseudoColor (no linear framebuffer)
0x0103: 800x600x8 PseudoColor (no linear framebuffer)
0x0104: 1024x768x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x0102: 800x600x4 Planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
0x006A: 800x600x4 planar (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
It certainly looks like 1024x768x16 is your best choice ..
And it seems to support it thru Xvesa .. ( no framebuffer )
Did adding the line "dsl vga=normal" at the boot: prompt
make ANY difference in how it looked or behaved?
It should bootup into 1024x768x16 by default .
You shouldn't have to touch a thing or run thru "xsetup.sh"
This is a version of DSL 0.8.2 or later, right?
Since you were mentioning framebuffer, I'm assuming your
booting off a liveCD, not another type of HDinstall, right?
73
ke4nt
yes this is dsl 0.8.3, and by default w/o vga=normal it says its booting into 1024x768x32 and i've booted it off of the cd and even copied the cd image to my hd and run it from there.
yepper.... my bad..
1024x768x32 IS the default.. oops..
That won't work....
I'll look into more notes here and online ...
and it looks like you've already tried to include the xsetup at boot
" dsl vga=normal xsetup "
and hand picked your choices...
or
"fb1024x768" - then selecting xfbdev at xsetup ?
( no dsl at boottime - ONLY "fb1024x768" )
Any luck at 800x600 - just to establish a baseline for
Xvesa vs Xfbdev ?
Perhaps we can start there, and work UP ..
73
ke4nt
I have a IBM thinkpad 560 that I get a good display but around the outside edge of the screen there is about 1" of space that is not used and is just black. I tried going to xvesa - listmodes and it did not take the command at all.
I'm running version 8.3 and there is no cd rom drive on this laptop. what do you think I need to do to get the display to fill the screen properly? Thanks 
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