xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560

[zmjjmz]

I can only get it to go to 640x480x4, which prevents me from opening graphical dialogs to do things I need to do like setup the network to enable apt.
Does anyone know if there's a way around this? The screen is 800x600 with 64K colors, and it's a Trident Cyber9382
I can't use xfbdev because it doesn't have the fb0 module...

[GomJabbar]

According to ThinkWiki, you have to use the vesa driver.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Trident_Cyber9382

[zmjjmz]

I am using the vesa driver
(Otherwise X wouldn't work at all)

[GomJabbar]

Maybe you'll find something here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installat ... inkPad_560

[zmjjmz]

I've looked, and most of those guides are too outdated, even for DSL.
By the looks of it I could try getting XFree86 4.4.x on there, but that's not something I think I can do on my own...

[gychang]

I can only get it to go to 640x480x4, which prevents me from opening graphical dialogs to do things I need to do like setup the network to enable apt.
Does anyone know if there's a way around this? The screen is 800x600 with 64K colors, and it's a Trident Cyber9382
I can't use xfbdev because it doesn't have the fb0 module...

I am not an expert but I managed to install DSL on my HD by booting from floppy and my screen looks good with 800x600 on my 560Z (230Mhz, 96MB RAM).

I believe I had to use Xfbdev, are u using DSL 4.1.2?

gychang

[zmjjmz]

AFAIK the 560Z uses a different chipset.