Acer TravelMate 2480 - does not support Xorg?

[Rich]

Hi guiapq

it downloads "Xorg-7.5.dep" but soon after this, screen goes black, with no apparent reason, just showing a line describing an "ACPI violation" for 3 seconds berofe fading away

Sorry for butting in Juanito, but do you think he should also add  noacpi   to his boot command?

[Juanito]

No problem, this is partly why I was asking if Xvesa worked at low resolutions..

[guiapq]

I would suggest you start by booting using the "text" code and then run xsetup.sh to set resolution to 640x480x16 and "startx", if this works, try 1024x768x16. If both work, you could quite possibly get 915resolution to give you the native resolution for your screen.

worked for both

[guiapq]

should i try the noacpi bootcode?

[Rich]

Hi guiapq
Try booting in text mode with  noacpi  and then as Juanito suggested try:
tce-load -wil Xorg-7.5-3d

[guiapq]

this is it:

even with noacpi, ACPI still coflicts with SMBI,

but, i have figured out that it only happens when i have not downloaded yet the Xorg deps. system continues on and responding to ctrl+alt+del (forcing reboot)

so, i'll try to install Xorg anyway by letting my computer on even after screen is out.
wish me luck!

major problems are still with intel drivers, so the ACPI thing isn't the only thing hapening... unhappily

[guiapq]

any possible workarounds for the case of incompatibility between i915 and my hardware?

[Juanito]

any possible workarounds for the case of incompatibility between i915 and my hardware?

You might be able to use 915resolution with it - see the info file

[guiapq]

how do i use "xvesa=" bootcode to activate this extension

it`s "xvesa=1280x800" or "xvesa=915resolution mode 1280 800 16"

help me a last time!

[guiapq]

Code: [Select]

$ sudo 915resolution 50 1280 800
it really worked! thanks! but i still have to try out right the Xvesa= parameter, just for automating things...

[Rich]

Hi guiapq
Try   xvesa=1280x800x16

[guiapq]

whoa! i notice u guys did some very serious job in placing very carefully quite crucial scripts in this distro!

how would i know that 915resolution hacking would be directly done soon after the loading of the extensions?! it`s kinda a "klugde-ish" thing but it worked as a clock for me!

this makes TC distro number one for me xD. Congratulations, u`ve really got another level from the DSL primordies. thanks too!

X resolution issue dead. Alsaconf presistency and brazilian keyboards to go!