Request for assistance
Chuck Noyes
cnoyes at maui.webo.dg.com
Tue Aug 13 11:56:08 EDT 1996
I assume it's a VGA card and the monitor can handle VGA graphics.
If so, just try specifying a plain-jane VGA video driver
for XF86. That should work. Once that's done, then you try
experimenting with more *exotic* drivers.
XF86 contains a *probe* that can do some poking around with your
video sub-system. That might be able to shed some light....:)
BTW: There's a brief article, actually it's a letter to the editor, in
this months _Linux Journal_ about this very problem.
Bon Chance.....Chuck
>
>
> I'm trying to install XFree86 on an old AST Advantage! NB notebook
> computer and the only information I have been able to get about its video
> is the following:
> Chips and Technologies 65535 chipset on the motherboard, with 512k
> of 70ns ram;
> CCFT (whatever that means) edgelit mono 9.5" diagonal display, whose
> maximum resolution is 640x480 in 64 grayscale, 80 columns by 25 lines.
> Any help you can give will be appreciated.
>
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