Greetings,
Just purchased an IBM Thinkpad A31p - a wonderful machine; very
fast, outstanding display and keyboard, large disk (60GB). I have
almost everything working (was surprisingly painless)...
Mdk 8.2 almost works out of the box - problems are with video;
XFree86 4.2.0 does not recognize the video chip (ATI Mobility FireGL
7800, 64MB video RAM). Works in framebuffer mode only, as 1200 x 1024
at 16 bpp.
Set to run level 3 (from boot), downloaded the CVS version of
XFree86 (as of this morning); make World, make install, etc.
Then ran
X -configure
as root, looked over the generated configuration file.
Now, when I try to run startx I see the screen blank, turn white, a
cross pointer appears, then the machine locks.
Nuts.
I have Mdk 8.1 working on an A21p with XFree86 4.1.0 (patch mdk17);
attempted to merge an XF86Config-4 file from a working installation on
a A21p; but this does not seem to translate correctly. Did what I
could, same failure mode.
Does anybody have XFree86 working on a Thinkpad A31 and willing to
share their XF86Config-4?
I may have to purchase the X driver from Xi Graphics, they have a
version that works, but I would like to stick with XFree86 if I can ($
is not the problem - mainly as I have not heard back from their
support people yet, want two pointing devices - the internal pointer
and an external USB wheel mouse, Xi doesn't seem to support this...
XFree86 does, I have this working on the A21p).
Is there an RPM in cooker that I could use? (A quick scan didn't
look too promising saw 4.2.0-16 versus 4.2.0-10 which is the stock
version).
What am I overlooking? Any suggestions? Should I post the
XF86Config-4 file?
Regards,
David
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