Mike Manchester wrote:
>Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 file for an IBM Thinkpad 760xl?
>Does this machine take a special trident_drv.so. I found on comment on
>the web about the trident using some default LCD settting on the chip
>and ignoring the mode lines. Which makes a lot of sense to me. For
>awhile I thought X was just ignoring me, as it didn't seem to matter
>what I did with the mode lines the monitor always acted the same way,
>which was unusable. Maybe if I could find some info on how/what mode
>lines I could come up with a working on. Rather than just shotgunning
>the numbers into mode lines.
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>Mike M
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I don't think that you will do any good with X 4.x and trident
drivers. My experience has been that the trident drivers are messed up
in the 4.x versions of X. I had to use either version 3.3 with the
trident drivers, or the unlisted svga driver and X 4.0 when I was using
a 760. Maybe they work in 4.1 now, but I haven't seen anything in the
laptop groups mentioning whether or not the problem has been fixed.
Is your XL a DSTN display or TFT? If it is a TFT, choose any of the
IBM TFT monitors. It had been a while since I have used a DSTN, and I
forget which one it is for the DSTN. Take a look at the Linux on Laptop
page, there used to be a lot of good info there.
Good luck!
Jeff
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