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Topic: Fuzzy band in X running on an ancient laptop, Running XF86_SVGA on Thinkpad 560

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ericl

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Posted: Dec. 05 2007,20:24

Quote (roberts @ Dec. 05 2007,15:10)

Here is another config file for you to consider.

This appears to be a config for XF86 4.x and I think I am using a version 3 binary. I read somewhere that the config files are pretty different. I have tried every XF86Config that I could find online for the TP560 and the fuzzy line is the best that I have been able to get. So far, information that I have gotten at http://arctic.org/~dean/tp560/ has gotten me where I am so far.

Quote (roberts @ Dec. 05 2007,15:10)

Another option to try... At the very first boot prompt instead of typing dsl

boot: lowram vga=771

Then in the xsetup screen choose Xvesa, 800x600 8bit

I have tried this as well without success. I used every code listed at http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx and the system always barfs and tells me to select a valid mode. Using "lowram" does not seem to help on this system.

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Posted: Dec. 05 2007,20:38

On that link you referenced, it says it needs to use cy9382.tar.gz - did you use that as well?

Well, just to put it out there: you can also try XFree86 4.3.
This page http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Trident_Cyber9382 reports XOrg working under the vesa driver, although the trident driver might've been fixed since then.

ericl

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Posted: Dec. 05 2007,22:50

I looked at the cy9382 program and it looks like it's supposed to move the viewable area to a different part of the screen. There're references on the page to some different XF86Config files that are supposed to work without using cy9382. In short, no, I have not tried it yet.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm going to poke around this for a little longer before I decide to throw it out the window.