Re: X11 problem on a sony vaio fx705 (fxa59)

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tod Russell wrote:

> Apologies for posting a newbie question, but I am
> having problems starting X on a sony vaio fx705 laptop
> (european model identical to a fxa59) running Mandrake
> 8.2, and XFree86 4.2.0. When I run 'startx' I get a
> speckled grey screen with a red box in the upper left
> corner of the screen. I have modified lilo.conf to
> pass 'vga=788' to the kernel (2.4.18 patched and
> rebuilt with the acpi patch) as this seemed to work
> for others running redhat 7.3, but not for me. I have
> also commented out all modelines to use 'Native Panel
> Mode'. Other details, 1400x1050 15" SXGA, ATI 3D rage
> mobility m1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Attached is my XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log.

Try 'Option "NoCompositeSync"' in the M1's "Device" section of yoyr
XF86Config.

Marc.

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