[ltp] Thinkpad 760el Redhat 7.2 and X

George Patterson linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:28:39 -0800


That's great, I copied that info straight from the IBM web site... Thanks
for the info and I'll check your config out! I managed to get it in to X
with the --kickstart option in Xconfigurator... but "panel" crashes as soon
as it loads.... strange.

	George

At 12:55 PM 12/4/2001 -0700, M. Leo Cooper wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, George Patterson wrote:
>
>> 	Monitor:  IBM Thinkpad 9514-B TFT Panel
>>  	Graphics chipset: Trident CYBER9320
>>  	Graphics type: 1024x768
>
>Mistake here. The 760EL/XL screens only support 800x600 maximum. This is a
>hardware limitation.
>
>
>>  	Max resolution (with max video RAM): 1024x768 256 colors
>
>Ditto here. Shoud be 800x600.
>
>
>
>Anyhow, the TP760EL/XL sets up for X fine, but using XF86-3.3.6 and the SVGA
>server. I have an XF86Config file on my site at
>     http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/XF86Config
>
>
>However...
>I haven't managed to get an XF86Config-4 file for use with XF86-4.1. Has
>anyone gotten this to work?
>
>
>
>Mendel
>
>
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