+++ Wookey [04-05-25 17:58 +0100]: > +++ Philip Blundell [04-05-25 16:13 +0100]: > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:58, Wookey wrote: > > > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument > > > (EE) FBDEV(0): Mode Init Failed > > > > This usually means you're asking for a screen mode that the in-kernel > > driver doesn't support. Check that you have the right depth selected > > and that kind of good stuff. > > What are the right settings? Changing colour depth from 16 to 8 makes it put > the screen into a horrible mangled-screen graphics mode with what still looks > likes text and I can only get out of it by pushing the orange button on the > netwinder. > > But that's progress - it looks like the server started. I have 1024x768 and > 800x600 resolutions specified. > > If someone can point me at a working netwinder XF86config-4 that would > eliminate some uncertainty.
Thanx to Woody Suwalski for sening me a config that worked for him - with a bit of merging I now have a version that runs X OK, so we can safely say that the patch I concocted for 4.3 does work and the next update should be OK on arm - hopefully in time for the sarge release. > Wookey > -- > Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 > work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
