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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,05:48 QUOTE
i got a ibm thinkpad 765l laptop off of ebay w/ a orinoco silver wireless pcmia card with the intents to have a cheap laptop runnind dsl-i used it on my desktop and thought it would be cool-but the display adaptor won't work-i've tried framebuffer and such. I'm a linux newbie but i have some experience w/ some of the more common distros and basic commands-anyone have any idees-my laptophas a pentium 166mmx with 80mb of ram and a 6gb hd-so dsl will run nice if i can ever figure this out-any assistance would be appreciated
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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,05:59 QUOTE
the system loads but x is having trouble-all i get is a small grean,blue,and yellow melty box - the screen is 1024x768 with 16bit color max-gain i tried the framebuffer but i got the same result no matter what
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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,08:55 QUOTE
My IBM 770 has a similar video card to yours....
Your Trident Cyber 9385 vs my Trident Cyber 9397 ..

I need to use "dsl vga=normal" when starting my laptop,
but then the usual 1024x768 XVesa choices perform beautifully on mine.
I DO NOT use the framebuffer or XFbdev options..

let us know...

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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,18:01 QUOTE
nope still not working-i tried 1024x768 at 16bit color w/o choosing my dpi-and still the same mushy little picture-and i did use xvesa w/o framebuffering.-i'm not sure if this is some other type of issue somewhere because i get roughly the same result no matter what the sidplay option is-still mushy but it changes-i know the display works becuase it has windoze 98 and i somehow got knoppix to barely run so xfree at least works-anybody know how to get xfree on dsl or have any ideas concerning anohter small distro w/ xfree?
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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,18:58 QUOTE
That's surprising..  Hmmm...
Did your text roll off the bottom of the screen during bootup?

Do this..
Instead of using "dsl vga=normal" to bootup DSL,
Use "dsl 2 norestore" to get to a root shell prompt.
The run "Xvesa -listmodes"
Post up the output to this thread..

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