Re: 720 xserver settings?

on 2/17/07 1:11 PM, Dan Easley at [email protected] wrote:

> On 2/16/07, Mark Srebnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dan,
>> 
>> I installed 720degrees and IceWm on my 728 a week ago....
> 
> Which version of 720degrees?  I landed on the original sarge release,
> though my inability to boot on the newer two versions may have been to
> installation mistakes of my own.

I used the file '720degreees-debian-sarge-base-j720.tar.bz2' along with the
modules file 'modules-2.4.32-j720-10.tar.bz2' plus the other required files.

>> IceWM works fine, didn't need to set resolution.
>> 
>> What is the problem you're having with resolution?
> 
> Originally I got an error on startx that I foolishly did not copy down
> - it was display-related.
> 
> Now (because I changed the Screen section of xorg.conf to restrict the
> resolution lists to "640x240") it either hangs or disables the display
> until reboot - I can't be sure.  I suspect the later, as when I hit
> the on/off button twice, it suspends then hangs on waking, and I can
> see the error message from that.  Nothing else seems to put the screen
> back in text mode.

> I just changed the default depth rate to 8, and now I can read the errors
> again:

> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "handheld:0" in "list" command
> xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "handheld:0" in "add" command

I didn't touch the xorg.conf files....but I do get the same 2 error messages
you show above. However, still IceWM works.

> and later on:

> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid Argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): mode initialization failed

> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Hmmm...don't get these error messages....

Maybe someone else can advise....

Mark