-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 31 May 2004 01:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Andy Green wrote: > >> XORG is the problem:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > How did you work that out? That's the second time in two days I see > I agree with the OP. IIRC you were the first person mentioned above ;-) > The Xorg "ati" driver appears to me to be deficient, > at least with the ATI Rage Mobility card. > I am also unable to get more than 8 bits at 1024x480 > on my Sony C1VFK Picturebook with Xorg under FC2, > whereas I had 16 bits with this screen > with XFree86 under FC1. That is an unusual resolution, I wonder if that is something to do with the problem. How much video memory is on the video card? AGP apeture size in BIOS? When you ask for 16 bits NOT using the config from yesteryear, what do you see in the xorg log file as the reason it rejected 16bpp? Did you try 32 or 24 bpp? What happens if you ask for the same deal using a "normal" resolution like 1024x768 (useless as that may be on your widescreen display). > If I use the same config file (calling it xorg.conf) > that I used successfully with XFree86 with DefaultDepth 16, > I get a shrinking black oval which becomes a blank white screen. > But there is no error indicated in Xorg.0.log . > According to this, all is well. I have seen this on my Dell (using XF86 at that time....) it seems to be caused by the video chip stopping driving the LCD while the backlight is still on. From X's point of view everything IS well, it asked for such and such a video mode and as far as it can tell, got it. You can try Fn-F8 or whatever it is in your BIOS to flip between CRT and LCD, this something resets the chip from the BIOS code providing output again. > In my view, that must be a bug in Xorg. Well, xorg's ATI driver seems to have changed functionality from what you were last using. It can be a bug or just something changed: since xorg IS XFree86 branched at a certain point blaming "xorg" makes no sense to me. - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAuuV4jKeDCxMJCTIRAuXyAJ9Ol3gIwEQtIesTspi8nuDUuZeRuQCeJrRj gtOillJy9bHslho7UX6GX/g= =cc/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
