Re: xf86config and Neomagic 256AV
Hi, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > > HI, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have tried to install XFree on potato but I couldn't find my video card. > > I found a Neomagic MagicGraph 128 option, but mine is 256. > > I've got a vaio f-250 with that chip in it and I use xf86config to create an > XF86Config file for it. I've got a Vaio F707, with a 256AV+ chip. The svga server (3.3.6) can't probe it so I just uncomment the "chipset NM2200" line in XF86Config and it worked. > > Which xserver should I use? I think it should be SVGA. > > Have somebody tried Framebuffer? Is it better than standard svga? > > svga works like a charm. I haven't tried Framebuffer but I'd love to know > your > experience with it. I've tried both. I didn't test them very much (no benchmark) but I prefer the SVGA since I can switch between 640x480 and 1024x768 modes. I also use the framebuffer for console mode (1024x768). By the way, when I use 24bits modes, I've problems with some programs : Netscape use monochrome buttons (but the documents are fine) Xearth don't run complaining about number of bits per color. I think it's a bug in the retrieval of the bpp number. Everything is OK with 16bits modes. > > And I don't know which horizontal or vertical refresh rates I have to set. > > BTW, I have a thinkpad 390E. > > hsync= 31.5-48.5 > vsync= 60 > > I then edit the XF86Config file. Delete any modes that aren't "1024x768" and > also any screen definitions that aren't "1024x768". Because of the way an > LCD works these aren't variable so you can't use the other modes (at least > I can't) and they tend to mess things up. > > good luck, > Andy > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- __ __Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] __ |oo| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | |oo| <_)| | Campus II -- Bâtiment Sciences 3, bureau 364 | <_)| // \\ | Boulevard Mal JuinF 14032 CAEN CEDEX | // \\ (_| |_) | 02.31.56.73.98 / 33 +2.31.56.73.98 | (_| |_) |_\==/_| | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage | |_\==/_| ` mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Re: hibernation
Steven K Thompson wrote: >[...] > Is it reasonable for me to infer from this that hibernation used the end of > the original "C" partition hda1? What I read mostly says hibernation > uses hda4 but the partition tables did not list an hda4 before I > created it to install Debian. Also, now that I have four primary > partitions I can not create a new hda4 as a new hibernation partition > as some have suggested, at least without reorganizing things in some way. Hi, In fact, Phoenix bioses can have hibernation-partition or hibernation-file. So I presume that shrinking the Windows partition modified the position of the partition file, so the bios can't find it anymore. > Would there be some way I could reinstall hibernation in the last portion > of hda1 or elsewhere using something like phdisk or lphdisk or > some other means? So far I have not located a description or > documentation for phdisk. You can use phdisk under DOS (no option or /? -> help page) to (re)make an hibernation-file. lphdisk works under Linux and creates hibernation-partitions. It's less error-prone than phdisk (phdisk can write over another partition, it happened to me : it maked its partition in the middle of my (at this time empty) /usr/local partition. > Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me an explanation of this. > > Steve -- __ ________ __ |oo| | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] | |oo| <_)| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | <_)| // \\ || // \\ (_| |_) | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage | (_| |_) |_\==/_| |___ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _| |_\==/_|
Re: xf86config and Neomagic 256AV
Hi, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote: > > HI, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have tried to install XFree on potato but I couldn't find my video card. > > I found a Neomagic MagicGraph 128 option, but mine is 256. > > I've got a vaio f-250 with that chip in it and I use xf86config to create an > XF86Config file for it. I've got a Vaio F707, with a 256AV+ chip. The svga server (3.3.6) can't probe it so I just uncomment the "chipset NM2200" line in XF86Config and it worked. > > Which xserver should I use? I think it should be SVGA. > > Have somebody tried Framebuffer? Is it better than standard svga? > > svga works like a charm. I haven't tried Framebuffer but I'd love to know your > experience with it. I've tried both. I didn't test them very much (no benchmark) but I prefer the SVGA since I can switch between 640x480 and 1024x768 modes. I also use the framebuffer for console mode (1024x768). By the way, when I use 24bits modes, I've problems with some programs : Netscape use monochrome buttons (but the documents are fine) Xearth don't run complaining about number of bits per color. I think it's a bug in the retrieval of the bpp number. Everything is OK with 16bits modes. > > And I don't know which horizontal or vertical refresh rates I have to set. > > BTW, I have a thinkpad 390E. > > hsync= 31.5-48.5 > vsync= 60 > > I then edit the XF86Config file. Delete any modes that aren't "1024x768" and > also any screen definitions that aren't "1024x768". Because of the way an > LCD works these aren't variable so you can't use the other modes (at least > I can't) and they tend to mess things up. > > good luck, > Andy > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- __ __Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] __ |oo| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | |oo| <_)| | Campus II -- Bâtiment Sciences 3, bureau 364 | <_)| // \\ | Boulevard Mal JuinF 14032 CAEN CEDEX | // \\ (_| |_) | 02.31.56.73.98 / 33 +2.31.56.73.98 | (_| |_) |_\==/_| | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage | |_\==/_| ` mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hibernation
Steven K Thompson wrote: >[...] > Is it reasonable for me to infer from this that hibernation used the end of > the original "C" partition hda1? What I read mostly says hibernation > uses hda4 but the partition tables did not list an hda4 before I > created it to install Debian. Also, now that I have four primary > partitions I can not create a new hda4 as a new hibernation partition > as some have suggested, at least without reorganizing things in some way. Hi, In fact, Phoenix bioses can have hibernation-partition or hibernation-file. So I presume that shrinking the Windows partition modified the position of the partition file, so the bios can't find it anymore. > Would there be some way I could reinstall hibernation in the last portion > of hda1 or elsewhere using something like phdisk or lphdisk or > some other means? So far I have not located a description or > documentation for phdisk. You can use phdisk under DOS (no option or /? -> help page) to (re)make an hibernation-file. lphdisk works under Linux and creates hibernation-partitions. It's less error-prone than phdisk (phdisk can write over another partition, it happened to me : it maked its partition in the middle of my (at this time empty) /usr/local partition. > Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me an explanation of this. > > Steve -- __ ________ __ |oo| | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] | |oo| <_)| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | <_)| // \\ || // \\ (_| |_) | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage | (_| |_) |_\==/_| |___ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _| |_\==/_| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: radeon mobility
Jason Majors wrote: > > > >Is there a driver for the ati radeon mobility for x 4.1? > > >I set my notebook up using the radeon driver, but X dies complaining that > > >there are no devices available. Switching the Device line to "Standard VGA" > > >brings it up, but at vga16. > > > Wat kind of laptop do you have? > > Compaq presario 2700. > I'm starting to think that cygwin might be my only option. I've the same chip on my laptop, running woody. So, you have several possibilities : - use the vesa framebuffer (worked for me), - use the radeon framebuffer (didn't worked, but I never managed to run the atyfb on any ati card), - use the vesa driver in xfree 4.1 (works fine, but no acceleration), - use the xfree 4.2 cvs (i did it : more than 1 Go of HD, but great acceleration, GL modes, XV and so on ; only few refresh bugs). I suggest not to try the 4th solution if you don't have expericence, time and patience. IMHO, the 3rd one is the simplest. -- __ __ __ |oo| | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] | |oo| <_)| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | <_)| // \\ | | // \\ (_| |_) | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage| (_| |_) |_\==/_| | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __| |_\==/_| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: radeon mobility
Jason Majors wrote: > > > >Is there a driver for the ati radeon mobility for x 4.1? > > >I set my notebook up using the radeon driver, but X dies complaining that > > >there are no devices available. Switching the Device line to "Standard VGA" > > >brings it up, but at vga16. > > > Wat kind of laptop do you have? > > Compaq presario 2700. > I'm starting to think that cygwin might be my only option. I've the same chip on my laptop, running woody. So, you have several possibilities : - use the vesa framebuffer (worked for me), - use the radeon framebuffer (didn't worked, but I never managed to run the atyfb on any ati card), - use the vesa driver in xfree 4.1 (works fine, but no acceleration), - use the xfree 4.2 cvs (i did it : more than 1 Go of HD, but great acceleration, GL modes, XV and so on ; only few refresh bugs). I suggest not to try the 4th solution if you don't have expericence, time and patience. IMHO, the 3rd one is the simplest. -- __ __ __ |oo| | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant [IAD & SMA] | |oo| <_)| | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | <_)| // \\ | | // \\ (_| |_) | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage| (_| |_) |_\==/_| | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __| |_\==/_|
Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:41:12 -0400, Dutch a écrit : > > OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron > 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. > > I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files > and still nothing. > > Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try. > > > Any ideas? > > Another question whihc has COMPLETELY eluded every linux user/expert > Ive asked: Where does the database/list of video cards that are > availibe live - you know, when you run xf86config, eventually it asks > if you would like to see a list of video cards? > > I have gone to xfree86.org and installed the latest and Radeon still > does NOT appear in that list. then I thought it was the kernel > (Radeon does appear there cureing make menuconfig) but has no effect > onthe xf86config - and I was told that was onky for 3D support by the > kernel. With XFree 4.2 : Choose any ati card, then edit XF86Config and replace "ati" by "radeon". The driver will automatically detect your card. > I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker > and use the bloody thing! Use the vesa driver then and you won't have to install XFree86 4.2. (Do as above : select any card and replace the driver by "vesa".) > I really do like debian but this is REALLY beginning to piss me off, > not being able to get X to work at all. > > help! > TIA. > > -dutch > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant/ATER [IAD & SMA] | bzz?.o:. | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | ` %^..^___§ o::o:: | tél://+33 (0)2 31 56 74 31 | @ (oo) ) ::o::o |__ http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage ___| _`|'___WW¯WW_][__ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radeon Mobility LY supported by Debian?
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:41:12 -0400, Dutch a écrit : > > OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron > 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. > > I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files > and still nothing. > > Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try. > > > Any ideas? > > Another question whihc has COMPLETELY eluded every linux user/expert > Ive asked: Where does the database/list of video cards that are > availibe live - you know, when you run xf86config, eventually it asks > if you would like to see a list of video cards? > > I have gone to xfree86.org and installed the latest and Radeon still > does NOT appear in that list. then I thought it was the kernel > (Radeon does appear there cureing make menuconfig) but has no effect > onthe xf86config - and I was told that was onky for 3D support by the > kernel. With XFree 4.2 : Choose any ati card, then edit XF86Config and replace "ati" by "radeon". The driver will automatically detect your card. > I dont care about 3D or anything fancy. I just want to run windowmaker > and use the bloody thing! Use the vesa driver then and you won't have to install XFree86 4.2. (Do as above : select any card and replace the driver by "vesa".) > I really do like debian but this is REALLY beginning to piss me off, > not being able to get X to work at all. > > help! > TIA. > > -dutch > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- | Sylvain Sauvage, doctorant/ATER [IAD & SMA] | bzz?.o:. | GREYC -- CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen | ` %^..^___§ o::o:: | tél://+33 (0)2 31 56 74 31 | @ (oo) ) ::o::o |__ http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~sauvage ___| _`|'___WW¯WW_][__ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
