[ltp] XFree86, Gentoo, 760XL

Brian D. Ropers-Huilman linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:59:29 -0500


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I wold give it a try anyway. I had a 760 at one point in the past, prior
to my current R50p and the previous A30, and am quite sure I had the
vesa driver working just fine.

Tino Keitel said the following on 2004-09-29 06:48:
| On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 21:17:58 -0500, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:
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|>Running the VESA driver should allow you to do any resolution and color
|>depth you want, you just won't get any hardware acceleration.
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| The VESA framebuffer requires a VESA BIOS 2.0 or higher. Since my 765L
| has only VESA 1.2, I doubt that the 760 has 2.0 or higher.
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| Regards,
| Tino

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