Re: VESA Problem

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That chipset works fine here with 1024x768x16 with a 2.6 kernel and a 4.3.99 
snapshot (about a month old) on a toshiba laptop.With other laptops you might 
have different issues though (BIOS).There are various patches out there that 
all work or not to some degree.
Check here http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html and here 
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/
message?board.id=linuxport&message.id=234

On Saturday 21 February 2004 07:52 am, DE DOMMELIN Alexandre (LaoTseu) wrote:
> Hi !
>
> First, excuse me if my english is not very good ... so i've bought a new
> laptop based on a i855 graphical card.
> Due to problems with my bios etc ... i have to use the vesa driver to have
> a X. The problem is that i can use vesa only in 1024*768*8 ... i explain :
> if i choose for example a 16 bits configuration in my XF86Config something
> strange happen : X starts, but only the top of the screen is visible. The
> bottom is here but it is blured (not visible at all).
>
> Does anyone have an idea please ?
> For information, i'm on debian sid, using xfree 4.3.0-1 provided by Debian.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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