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> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > Has anyone gotten X to work on a Presario Laptop model
> > #1277? One of my co-workers is trying to get Linux
> > installed on his laptop and it seems the lcd display won't
> > work for him under X. :-(
> > Thanks...
> > John
>
> Do you have the right color pitch set for your chipset (video card)? I
> have linux 6.5 on a toshiba sattelite 220 and I had the same problems
> with the X server. You should start with the lowest color pitch and
> lowest resolution and work up.
> My chipset is supposed to handle 24bpp but will not do it. The best I
> can do is 16bpp. This looks just fine and works great! I believe that
> 16bpp is about 256,000 different colors. The trained human eye can see
> about 2,500. The normal eye, not trained around 2,000, me about 750
> because I,m colorblind!!!
Be sure name of your chipset (video card) while installing. Before do it,
you may see at display properties (in MS-Windows 9x system if you've
installed in your NB) or you should contact your vendor if you don't know
it. FYI, Linux OS should be optimated all peripheral in PC include
video-card :-).
regards,
-iwank- #penguin's lover --
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