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From: Just Baldrick <baldrick@rmsq.com>
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To: baldrick@rmsq.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Subject: Re: Problem with 2.1.5 and XFree86 3.2 on laptop
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>From nate@rocky.mt.sri.com Mon Nov 11 20:04:25 1996
To: Just Baldrick <baldrick@rmsq.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem with 2.1.5 and XFree86 3.2 on laptop

>> I am having trouble with the screen display on a
>> laptop.
>
>And this laptop would be....????

It's a 120MHz Pentium by Bit Computers, ie a no-name
machine.

>
>> XFree86 3.2 correctly detects the chipset,
>> Chips & Technologies 65545, and everything works
>> OK except that the display is 712x600 instead of
>> 800x600.
>
>If it's on a NEC or the HP (from the XFree86 notes) this is normal.
>
>> Using the option "fix_panel_size" (which does just that)
>> the display is 800x600.  However, after 4 hours or so the
>> display goes crazy, either becoming a mess of horizontal
>> lines or just turning black.
>

I've read all the READMEs and notes on the XFree86
web site and couldn't find any answers.  Looks like
I'll just have to use X for only a few hours at a
time.

Geoff Martindale