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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 1997 22:57:13 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org, trident@xfree86.org
Subject:   Re: half-width displays 
Message-ID:  <199709031327.WAA00394@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Sep 1997 19:52:39 %2B1000." <199709030952.TAA00337@polya.blah.org> 

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> I've _finally_ gotten X to work on my Thinkpad 760EL, however I've been
> having problems with 16bpp mode.  As it only has 1mb of video ram, I cannot
> use XAA with it in 16bpp mode.
> 
> As such, in 16bpp mode, all pixels are double-width, and the screen
> only displays the left hand side of the display.  Vertical pixels are unaltered
> - as such all objects are distorted.
> 
> The machine uses Trident's Cyber9320 chipset and has a TFT screen.
> 
> Has anyone else suffered such problems?

I had similar problems with the C&T 65554 chipset in my Toshiba with 
the "screen stretch" BIOS option turned on.  Turning this off made XF86 
much happier.

mike





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