Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian
> >2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except
> >that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to
> >XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat
> >6.1 installed on it in my first try). The problem is that I don't want
>
> If it works with Red Hat then why not just copy the Red Hat
> /etc/X11/XF86config file?
>
> Also could you please email this file to me? This afternoon I just tried
> unsuccessfully to get potato to work on a colleagues 390E. I was installing
> the same versions of the packages which work on my 380XD but it just didn't
> work. The FBDEV X server was just refusing all the modes that were listed as
> options.
I have not tried to use the FBDEV XFree server on the 390E - I am using
the XF86_SVGA Server (3.3.5 selfmade) which supports the NeoMagic 256AV
(NM 2200) without problems ...
Startlog ...
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XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: August 23 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.12 i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, ET4000, ET4000W32,
ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p,
ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c,
ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10,
wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202,
sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597, sis5598, sis6326, sis530,
sis620, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl,
tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi,
tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660,
tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388,
cyber9397, cyber9520, cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd,
blade3d, cyberblade, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428,
clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462,
clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541,
clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e,
cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200,
mgag100, mgag400, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228,
ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440,
video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek,
s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090,
NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535,
ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct65555,
ct68554, ct69000, ct64200, ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200,
p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, generic
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(de)" (overrides other XKB settings)
(**) Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/gpmdata, baudrate: 1200
(**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "My"
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "IBM"
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 62.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(--) SVGA: PCI: NeoMagic NM2200 rev 18, Memory @ 0xf6000000, 0xfe400000
(--) SVGA: chipset: NM2200
(--) SVGA: videoram: 2560k
(**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz
(**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000
(--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) SVGA: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV (NM2200) chip
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Panel is a 1024x768 color TFT display
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Internal LCD only display mode
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Video modes are displayed in the upper-left corner
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Low resolution video modes are stretched
(--) SVGA: NM2200: MMIO registers at 0xFE400000
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Linear framebuffer at 0xF6000000
(--) SVGA: NM2200: Using hardware cursor
(--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
(--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
(--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill
(--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE imagetext, TE polytext)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching
(--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples
(--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
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So if anyone sees problems runnign Debian slink on the 390E i will be happy
to put everything up for download ...
Flo
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