Laptops :: Display Problem

Hi All,

please can you help me...

i've installed dsl (latest release) to hard drive. all is well however i cannot get the screen resolution acceptalbe.

the best i can get it is using vesa 800x600 16bit. virtually any other settings from within xsetup.sh renders it unreadble on reboot.

i tried doing this process on a Sony Vaio PCG-R505AFT and although it's resolution wasn't very good (at least it wasnt green like the Acer), it was rectified after an xsetup run...

please can someone help me as i think any distro other than dsl will run too slowly on the box...

FYI - here is the machine specs

Your Help is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Wesley.

That is because thats all it will support

8.4" TFT
800x600x64K (SVGA)

Not a bad little rig...those guys are quite rugged..they dont build laptops like they used to...how much ram you got in it?

Brian
AwPhuch

Yes, i love the little thing and it works like a dream... however it's too slow under windows... even although i got 64mb ram in it (seems like nothing sompared to my dell servers which run SQL :;):

)

However i know that is all it supports but it has a "green layer" over the display... i know it sounds strange but it really hurts your eyes to focus on whats underneath... i know the display card works as it was fine under win2kpro...

Does anybody have anything to suggest?

I have a similar problem with a Dell Latitude 233 (with 64Mb).

Boots OK, but screen is barely readable under a pale
green layer. Can open some menu's with a right click
but cannot see the text well enough to read it.
Knoppix works OK on this laptop just very slooooowwwwly.

As a double check - I ran CD on my desktop machine and
it works beautifully.

Any suggestions?

Nevermind. Entering fb800x600 and boot time causes a
configuration menu to be brought up. Choosing FRAME
BUFFER (among other options) make everything works fine.

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