mattruben
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Posted: Feb. 11 2006,07:30 |
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Okay, I've done some more searching here and elsewhere, and have found out the following:
- No one has gotten X running with DSL on a ThinkPad 701c, except by doing a HD install and then downloading and installing xFree86, which allows for a proper XConfig file in which one can properly specify the exact graphics chip/device.
- Doing an "Xvesa -listmodes" brings up a number of modes for the 701's graphics chip (a Chips and Technology 65545 with 1MB VRAM). However, all the color modes say "(no linear framebuffer)" - which I believe means that this graphics chip is vesa 1.2 compliant and NOT vesa 2.0 compliant. That in turn means that there's no way to make it work with the xvesa or xfbdev drivers included in DSL.
- The only modes that are not listed as "no linear framebuffer" are monochrome modes. I took the hex code for 640x480x1 (i.e. 640x480 monochrome), converted it to decimal, and used a cheatcode with it: "dsl vga=529". But this code appears to be unsupported, as it does not prevent the "undefined mode number" error during early boot, and it does not enable X to start up properly with fbdev or xvesa.
So... it looks like the ThinkPad 701 and DSL are a no-go combination in a Live/standard version, unless/until someone makes a VESA 1.2-compatible fbdev, or perhaps finds a way to make the xvesa/fbdev X system configurable to the extent that XFree86 is.
Oh well. 
Matt
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