Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:31:29 +0200 From: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg.conf for Compaq Armada 110 Message-ID: <20080706093129.GA31896@www.stare.cz> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750807051222n19ccdfe3mdff2ee57a4ec36d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080705184200.GA24172@www.stare.cz> <3a142e750807051222n19ccdfe3mdff2ee57a4ec36d0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jul 05 21:22:12, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/5/08, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote: > > Dear laptopers, > > > > during the honorable quest of converting my wife's laptop from win to fbsd, > > I came across the following problem. > > > > It's a Compaq Armada 110; everything works as it should _except_ > > running X just blanks the screen and freezes the machine (can't > > even ping it). The graphics device is > > > > Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a) > > Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation CyberBlade i1 AGP > > > > A workaround is to specify the graphics devoce driver as (generic) > > "vga" instead of the (Xorg -configure)'d "trident" in xorg.conf. > > That makes X able to start (with a ridicuslously low resolution and > > ugly colors). > > > > What about replacing "vga" with "vesa"? Good enough, thanks! jan
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