The first thing to look for is the version of the X packages (are there new ones in the distro? And the uplink?). If the versions match the ones by DSL and xubuntu, then it's either patches not integrated by arch linux or difference in the generated xfree86 files (compare the two, but that seems less likely to me).
make sure that the right driver gets used, it might be picking up the framebuffer or vesa drivers for some reason. Also on the subject, I would also suggest that you get some extra memory for it, the difference between 128mb and 320mb is huge. It's still very much viable as a student laptop, if upgraded. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ik Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:59 PM To: linux-il Subject: Arch Linux xorg and old thinkpad A21p laptop Hello List, I'm tring to help some one to "rescue" an old laptop (thinkpad A21p) with 128M ram. So I have installed arch linux inside. Everything went well, until I tried to work with xorg. It seems that X just ignores my settings of resolution and color depth, and even worse, from time to time, it either go all while (the screen) or black and the entire machine get stack (even the sys resque magic does not work). This happens to me only with arch linux's xorg. I have tried it using xubuntu (that had other issues, like malformed drivers of orinoco, but not related to x), and even DSL, and non of them had this type of problem. I created the xorg.conf using X -configure and even when i changed the support for depth to 1 bit and the resolution to 640x480 (very small for a 15" lcd), it just place 800x600 and 24 bit color. It also display half a screen, the content of X, then it have blank until a point it painting the screen again like it is on origin 0,0. Any ideas what I should look for, and what might cause such issues ? Thanks, Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
