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Posted: May 15 2005,16:26

I usually use DSL for testing purposes, this to great satisfaction.
Now recently I have installed Debian/testing (at the moment aka sarge) on an old laptop someone gave to me. But now I am trying to set up X and having great trouble to get the screen to function correctly.
The laptop is an AMS Roadster 15CTA, online there is one site about installing linux on this very laptop, but their refreshrates for some reason don't work for me.
Now when booting DSL on the same laptop it works fine, but I cannot find the used refreshrates because I can't find the X config file.
Can anyone tell me what they are?

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Posted: May 15 2005,17:08

60 hz.

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Posted: May 15 2005,17:28

60Hz is vertical, I also need horizontal, that's the part which is messing me up at the moment.

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Posted: May 15 2005,19:20

Could it be that DSL does not always report exactly accuratly what it boots for X?
It would seem to be from all the research I have been doing the past hours that the laptop I have here would never be capable of booting 1024x768x32 as DSL reports it's doing. This because of several reasons, first of all the TFT/LCD only goes up to 800x600, second of all it would seem that the memory available to the Video Card, 2MB, is not nearly sufficient to provide such a resolution.

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Posted: May 15 2005,20:51

Default X settings are 1024x768x32.

There is no X config file. Xvesa/Xfbdev is completely controlled by command line flags.

Also, it only does one refresh rate - 60Hz, and I'm not sure it does horizontal refreshing.

Whenever I use it on a screen that doesn't like 60Hz, there is just horizontal flickering.

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