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Topic: IBM Thinkpad 360CE, Can DSL run on this?

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famewolf

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Posted: Oct. 11 2004,23:48

I'm at wits end trying to get X to work on this old laptop..the laptop is a 486 50mhz with 36 meg of ram (32 + 4 built int) and a 500 meg hd...I've tried vga=normal...fb800x600 etc...none of them will work for x...get the infamouse "fatal io error"...I think the display can do 640x480x4....using vga=normal is the ONLY mode that doesn't give me an error at bootup saying "you selected the wrong mode...hit enter for a list..etc"..and gives me selections like 80x24, 80x34 etc...says it's VGA on that screen. That probably means 640x480 by 16 colors. Any ideas?

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,03:37

Try substituting your "vga=normal" for on of these other values:

depth------640x480-----800x600-----1024x768-----1280x1024
256----------769----------771-----------773-------------775
32000-------784----------787-----------790-------------793
65000-------785----------788-----------791-------------794
16.7 Mill.----786----------789-----------792-------------795

For example, if you want 640x480x8bit(256 color), use "vga=769" instead of "vga=normal".

Also, here is the original frambuffer table in HEX numbers:

Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+-----------------------------------------------------
4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ?
8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 0x31C
15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 0x31D
16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A 0x31E
24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B 0x31F

So if you REALLY wanted to try 16 colors, you would need to do something like vga=770

Then try the "xsetup.sh" command and choose the xfbdev server and then "startx" to launch xwindows.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,03:50

cbagger01 !

Your above post would be good faq material !!

I have found this "chart" buried in the forums,
and searched vigilantly for it at times....

ke4nt

famewolf
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Posted: Oct. 14 2004,17:32

The wd90c24 chipset in the thinkpad 360ce needs the xfree svga server..it won't work with either the vesa or framebuffer servers....I tried deli linux and was able to get X going however I'd prefer to run DSL....can someone tell me the steps I need to do to use the xfree 3.3.6 or svga server with dsl?

nab

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Posted: Oct. 17 2004,13:16

well, I'm just a newbie

I'm trying to install dsl on a thinkpad 560. Here I had the same problem with the X servers. Only 480x640x4 is working, though I know it can operate on 600x800x16.

I installed the complete x-window-system with apt-get (best you search for x-window-system, there are some very good posts on this topic), but I couldn't get the x-server running smoothly.

With slack 9.1 I found a X-config that worked even with the standard kernel (just for finding the config I had to compile a kernel just with vga and vesa support). With this config the complete screen was used, but some parts of the screen were inaccessable and others were behaving a little strange.

Until now I didn't find a solution to this problem, I'm stilling trying to get it working

Hope you have more luck with your tp.

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