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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:23:25PM -0400, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> >
> > Because I have exotic hardware (Sony TR2). Notably, I have a 1280x768
> > display that XF86 can only use 1024x768 of.
>
> Change the settings by hand in the Xcoonfig file
Modelines are ignored by the i810 module if they don't match a resolution
advertised by the BIOS. This is because the i810 X module isn't a driver,
but a BIOS trampoline. Trust me, Ruben, I've been through
everything on this, including the C source for the X module. There's
nothing about this problem that you're going to be able to tell
me.
This sums it up nicely:
http://www.emperorlinux.com/kiwi.php
> Technical Note on the XFree86 i810_drv video driver for the i855gm
> chipset: The i810 driver does not currently support resolutions which
> are not defined in the i855's video bios because Intel Corp. has not
> released full specifications for the chip. Unfortunately, the TR1A's
> native 1280x768 mode is not included in the i855's bios. Therefore, the
> highest mode the Kiwi TR can support under XFree is 1024x768. We can
> ship the system with the bios set to "stretch" this 1024 up to the full
> 1280 width, and this looks quite nice with the hardware scaling, but it
> is not the native resolution. We and the XFree maintainers are aware of
> this bug in the driver. Please feel free to contact David Dawes, the
> code maintainer, or Intel Corporation.
I'm sure David Dawes is thrilled to be mentioned here... They should
have only mentioned intel... David is powerless to fix this without
intel's cooperation. Totally irresponsible of EmperorLinux to flood his
inbox in that way, IMHO.
> > It also has a camera that's
> > useless on Linux, and an internal Bluetooth adapter that's useless on
> > Linux (I think there's hope for that if I wanted to really work on it,
> > though).
>
> >The external display connector which I depend on for getting
> > real work done doesn't work on Linux except as a 1024x768 mirror of the
> > laptop screen (on Windows I can use it as a 1600x1200 desktop
> > extension).
>
> You can probibly use X in VESA setting. That's exactly what my sony did.
> I got the Xcongireation file from Emperorer Linux
No. This is different.. Your picturebook was a Neomagic chip, right?
> > Forget about 3D acceleration.
> Playing quake?
Yes. And whatever else wants 3D.
> > One of the big things for my everyday
> > laptop use is being able to sleep/hibernate the machine and put it in my
> > bag. I can't reliably do this on Linux. Maybe that's possible: maybe
> > it's my fault.
>
> This is not particulurly hard. I believe SUSe 9.0 will set this up for
> you without trouble.
It's pretty easy on Windows.
> > I'm tired of struggling all weekend to get stuff like
> > that to work.
>
> Thats another issue, but at least you only need to do that once.
No, this is EXACTLY THIS ISSUE!
> > So what I'm doing is running Gentoo on colinux on WindowsXP Pro, with
> > lots of help from Cygwin (especially its ssh and X server). WindowsXP
> > handles all of the hardware, and Gentoo does all of my real work.
>
> I've been using that stuff lately at work and it so sucks, although it is
> much better than ity used to. Their X Server is much improved.
Well, pure Linux sucks a lot worse on this laptop.
> > If you don't know about colinux, it's a usermode Linux kernel running as
> > a windows process.
>
> Windows doesn't have processes. It must run as a Windows Thread.
Ok, why the fuck did you clip my URL to the msdn site
defining the "Processes and Threads" API?
Here it is again, fudmaster.... This time, LOOK AT IT!
http://assburger.org/prepu/dnqwcy
> > Seems really miraculous somehow, except that dates
> > get screwed up for some reason. Anyway, I run that, and it uses
> > a ethertap driver to present a virtual NIC on whatever LAN my laptop
> > is on and get itself an IP address. I can ssh to that address and
> > start running X programs on my Windows desktop. Not very easy to do,
> > the X buttons are screwed up, it's and kind of an unwieldy process,
> > but that's what I'm doing.
> >
>
> And apps crash alot.
No they don't!
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