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800x480 resolution for EEEPC
curaga:
So, Xfbdev works with the kms fb emulation? Good news.
The "nomodeset" boot code is another way to get Xorg 7.4 running on intel/tc3.
mwoodruff:
At Juanito's suggestion, I tried the adding the modeset=0 line to xorg.conf before loading graphics-2.6.33.3. This definitely had an effect -- I didn't get a high-resolution text mode like I had been getting before when I loaded graphics-2.6.33.3. When I tried to load Xorg, though, still a black screen. Do I need to add a modeline to xorg.conf?
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: mwoodruff on May 21, 2010, 05:50:52 PM ---At Juanito's suggestion, I tried the adding the modeset=0 line to xorg.conf before loading graphics-2.6.33.3.
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How did you add it? On the already running system and backup or modified in initrd?
Juanito:
--- Quote from: mwoodruff on May 21, 2010, 05:50:52 PM ---At Juanito's suggestion, I tried the adding the modeset=0 line to xorg.conf before loading graphics-2.6.33.3.
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eh?
My suggestion was:
--- Quote ---This might be because you need "options i915 modeset=0" in /etc/modprobe.conf before loading the graphics-2.6.33.3-tinycore extension
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mwoodruff:
Yes, I beg your pardon... I did in fact add it to modprobe.conf and not xorg.conf. This was a lapse of my brain when typing the post:)
What I did was this:
I booted into text mode with no extensions loaded and without restoring the backup (boot codes text, base, norestore).
I added "options i915 modeset=0" to /etc/modprobe.conf then loaded the graphics extension. When I did this, the screen remained 80 columns wide instead of going into a higher resolution text mode, as it had without the extra line in modprobe.conf.
Then I loaded Xorg, ran Xorg -configure, copied the resulting configuration file over to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I checked it over and it contained the line driver="intel", which I took as a good sign.
Without making any modifications to xorg.conf, I then ran startx and got an unresponsive black screen.
At any rate, I'm very happy with Xfbdev since it gives me my native resolution, but I enjoy tinkering and it would be neat if I could figure out how to get Xorg up and running.
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