[ale] XF86 on Compaq Armada 1700

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, adding the "VideoRam 2048" line
did not help. Also, it behaves exactly the same way using either 8 or
16bpp. So I think this is probably a physical limitation rather
than a software one :-( Oh well, now I can run with 32-bit color :-)

-- Joe
 
> 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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