Bummer. Perhaps I should subscribe to one of the X-specific lists and bug them. I was lurking on one or two of them for a while, but I would get buried in posts. Would anyone suggest the debian-x list, or the real xfree86 list (anyone have an address handy for that)?
On the positive side, with all of this poking around, I have managed to get my docked configuration (fixed my mouse problem by plugging my USB mouse into a different port on the docking station). So, when I'm docked, things are hunky-dory, if not transportable. But, I've got follow-on questions (nothing like a newbie to be a pest): 1. How can I tell if I'm using all of the accleration that is possible? 2. Is there some benchmarking application that I can use? 3. If I splurge and get a ATI 7500 PCI card, am I going to see any improvement? I intend to get a large LCD display sometime in the next six months. What new issues can I expect with that? I found glxgears, and tried that but I get the same value from my fancy 3DFX Voodoo card as I do from my laptop (both bounce between 40 and 50 FPS). It's not impossible that the two cards are roughly equivalent, but it seems fairly low on a probability scale. What kind of values should I expect on what was once (in 1998) a fairly snazzy 366 MHz laptop? tia, -d On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 13:17, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > wow......hmmm.....I am stumped then sorry....try apt-get remove > xserver-xfree86 and then comment out the sources in your apt sources that > you got x 4.2.1 from and get x from stable...see what happens when you go > back to 4.1....if it stays the same, I would have to think that you have a > hardware issue since it worked fine before. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darin Strait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jeremy Petzold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1 > > > > I tried to uxe dpkg-reconfigure, but I never saw a question about the > > frame buffer. So, I went in and changed the > > > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > > to: > > > > Option "UseFBDev" "false" > > > > and: > > HorizSync 28-49 > > VertRefresh 43-72 > > > > to: > > HorizSync 30-70 > > VertRefresh 50-90 > > > > There was no noticable effect. > > > > What else can I try, short of removing all of my X packages and > > reinstalling everything? I assume that I'll have to reinstall anything > > that depends on X, like gnome, kde, openoffice, gnucash, etc., so I > > really don't want to do that. > > > > -d > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:49, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > > > try not using the kernel frame buffer. reconfigure the xserver-xfree86 > > > package and when you get to the part that asks about the framebuffer, > say > > > no. see where that gets you. some times that could hose your system. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jeremy Petzold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Darin Strait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:34 PM > > > Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1 > > > > > > > > > > did you do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and a > "dpkg-reconfigure > > > > xserver-comon"? > > > > see if that fixes it. > > > > > > > > also, what is your videocard? and how much ram does it have? X allows > you > > > to > > > > specify more ram than your card actualy has if it is AGP and use > system > > > > resources to help in display. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Darin Strait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:21 PM > > > > Subject: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I let my machine upgrade to the new XFree packages tonight, and my X > is > > > > > hosed. > > > > > > > > > > X does run (it might even be a little bit faster :-/), but it seems > as > > > > > if it's picked an improper color depth for the hardware -- the > display > > > > > looks solarized, sort of. The colors are wrong, but I can manipulate > > > > > windows and my familiarity with my WindowMaker menu lets me remember > > > > > where my stuff is. Clearly, this needs to be fixed, though. > > > > > > > > > > XFree doesn't seem to care what color depth I run at -- at each > depth I > > > > > tried I find that my colors are slightly differently wrong. For > example, > > > > > my xload, which is usually a black graph on a white background is > now a > > > > > grey graph on a black background. At a different color depth, the > colors > > > > > would be different, but still wrong. > > > > > > > > > > One thing I notice is that what should be gradual fades from one > color > > > > > to another, through many subtle shades, (like title bars, or the > > > > > splashscreen from KDE) have been reduced to repeating patterns of > > > > > unsubtle shades. > > > > > > > > > > What to do? I'm only moderately clued-in as far as X goes, but I've > > > > > dpkg-reconfigured and apt-get remove/apt-get updated a few things > with > > > > > absolutely no progress. > > > > > > > > > > (I did fix my pex5 unresolved symbol error, though.) > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
