Re: xorg.conf for Compaq Armada 110

"Paul B. Mahol" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/5/08, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear laptopers,
>
> during the honorable quest of converting my wife's laptop from win to fbsd,
> I came across the following problem.
>
> It's a Compaq Armada 110; everything works as it should _except_
> running X just blanks the screen and freezes the machine (can't
> even ping it). The graphics device is
>
> 	Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a)
> 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation CyberBlade i1 AGP
>
> A workaround is to specify the graphics devoce driver as (generic)
> "vga" instead of the (Xorg -configure)'d "trident" in xorg.conf.
> That makes X able to start (with a ridicuslously low resolution and
> ugly colors).
>

What about replacing "vga" with "vesa"?
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