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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: the_sim on November 30, 2009, 07:18:52 AM

Title: Display Too Dark
Post by: the_sim on November 30, 2009, 07:18:52 AM

I am trying to run Tinycore on an older PC and the display is too dark. I have installed TC to a hard drive and I can move the hard drive to a newer system and it is fine but on that one specific model it is very dark. The PC is a Compaq EVO D300 with an Intel 815E chipset. I want to run this on ~40 of these machines. What can I do to fix this issue.

Title: Re: Display Too Dark
Post by: justdoro on November 30, 2009, 08:31:48 AM

I had this experience with the same chipset.  My solution was to install xorg from the appbrowser.

This seemed to be able to display correctly. 

This resulted in a larger install, but that was ok for my purposes.

Title: Re: Display Too Dark
Post by: Kingdomcome on November 30, 2009, 08:59:24 AM

Someone on IRC yesterday was seeing the same problem with an 810 chipset.  They were able to solve the brightness issue by reducing the resolution in Xvesa.  You can run xsetup.sh and then restart X to test different resolutions and bitdepth combos

Title: Re: Display Too Dark
Post by: curaga on December 04, 2009, 11:52:39 AM

These come up from time to time. It's because the BIOS gives too little ram to the Intel graphics. There might be an option for that; if turned up, Xvesa should function fine. If not, Xorg with the Intel driver can resize the used memory.