[ale] XF86 on Compaq Armada 1700

[Fulton Green]

I have a ProStar 8260 laptop, which also has a C&T 65555 chip, as well as
4 MB VRAM and and built-in 1024x768x24-bit (XGA) color LCD. I found that in
order for the video to work properly (in my case, work in better-than-8-bit
color), I had to explictly specify the available VRAM in the "video card"
section of the XF86 config file (I forget what the exact parameter is).

And a quick heads-up ... as of a month-and-a-half ago, XFree86 4.01 isn't
playing nicely with the 65555 chip.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:52:08PM -0600, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> I just picked up a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, and I'm in the
> midst of configuring XFree86 (this is a Slackware 7.1 install),
> XFree is v3.3.6).
> 
> Anyone else have one of these beasties? Anyhow, I'm having
> a weird problem:
> 
> All the info I can find on the web indicates that this
> thing should be happy running in 16bpp, 1024x768 mode.
> While it will certainly start up that way, and look nice,
> I can only see the top-left 800x600 chunk of the desktop,
> which fills the entire screen. If I run the mouse off
> the edge it just disappears; it doesn't scroll as it
> would for a virtual desktop. I have "Virtual 0 0" in my
> XF86Config, so I should be seeing the entire desktop.
> 
> I notice that upon startup, the SVGA server says:
> 
> (--) SVGA: CHIPS: Display Size: x=800; y=600.
> 
> (This chipset is Chips&Technologies 65555, I think that's
> what the "CHIPS" is about.) I suspect that this means the
> display is physically 800x600 pixels, but if that's true,
> I wonder how others are able to run the same machine at
> 1024x768? Were there different versions of this machine with
> different displays? Anyone got one running at 1024x786?
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