My mistake, it was from another debian list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg00001.html
In any case, has anyone built XFree86 4.2.0 with success on Debian? If
so, does it take care of the TiBook problem?
Also, for this feedback to come to use, is there any list or issue
tracking system where experiences lilke these can be submitted?
From what I've seen, sax2 lets you explicitly specify eg. 1152x768,
whereas xf86cfg does not, at least I haven't managed both to set that
resolution and have X work properly.
/Dimitris
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 12:53 , Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:26, Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote:
I notived from the debian-powerpc archives that there's been some
discussion about porting suse's sax2 to debian. Did this discussion
lead
to some kind of resolution?
I don't recall that discussion, any pointers in the archive?
One reason to port would be that sax2 seems to be very easy to use, and
allows explicit resolution settings (I've had problems with my woody
installation and setting my TiBook's screen size), so I imagine that
having a tool for this may help.
I question the need to port any tool for this specific problem. Even if
there's other things sax2 might do better than the current Debian X
infrastructure (and xf86cfg - what exactly does sax2 do better?), I'm
not sure if the differences between the Debian and SuSE environments are
reasonably resolvable.
As for the specific problem of the native resolution of TiBook panels,
I've toyed with the idea of integrating a mode for it into the X server,
but I'm not sure if that makes sense; the other built-in modes are
either VESA standards or used on a wide range of machines, and ideally
the mode should be probed from the panel anyway.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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