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Date:      Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:22:12 +0200
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        "Jan Stary" <hans@stare.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg.conf for Compaq Armada 110
Message-ID:  <3a142e750807051222n19ccdfe3mdff2ee57a4ec36d0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080705184200.GA24172@www.stare.cz>
References:  <20080705184200.GA24172@www.stare.cz>

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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"?



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