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xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:24 pm
by 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...
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:38 pm
by GomJabbar
According to ThinkWiki, you have to use the vesa driver.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Trident_Cyber9382
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:02 pm
by zmjjmz
I am using the vesa driver
(Otherwise X wouldn't work at all)
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:16 pm
by GomJabbar
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:17 pm
by 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I've looked, and most of those guides are too outdated, even for DSL.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...
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:31 pm
by gychang
zmjjmz wrote: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
Re: xvesa with DSL on a Thinkpad 560
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:44 pm
by zmjjmz
AFAIK the 560Z uses a different chipset.