GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on Dell Inspiron 8500

2003-12-07 Thread Christophe Jacquet 
Hi,

I have just tried to run XFree86 4.3.99.901 on a Dell Inspiron 8500 with
a GeForce4 Ti 4200.

Globally it works well, except for three things:

 1) Although X detects the graphic chip (the log says: (--) Chipset
GeForce4 4200 Go found), when I run XFree86 -configure the chip's
correct name is not written in XF86Config.new:

Driver  nv
VendorName  nVidia Corporation
BoardName   Unknown Board


 2) I could not get the integrated flat panel (1680x1050) working
without explicitly adding a specific modeline:

Modeline 1680x1050 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087

However, X correctly detects my flat panel:

(--) NV(0): Panel size is 1680 x 1050
(--) NV(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(==) NV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00 kHz
(II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00 Hz
(II) NV(0): Clock range:  12.00 to 350.00 MHz

But it lacks a default 1680x1050 mode, so it defaults to 640x480. Maybe
adding a default 1680x1050 mode would help Dell laptop users who don't
want to bother with modelines (or aren't skilled enough) ?


 3) When I switch back from graphics mode to text mode, the text display
is messed up: the display is not correctly centered, one pixel out of
two remains off, and horizontal lines appear when some text is printed
on the last line.


Here is the lspci output corresponding to my graphics adapter:

01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0286 (rev a1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti
4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer
Corporation: Unknown device 0179Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop,
66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11Memory at fc00 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=16M]Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
[size=64M]  Expansion ROM at 8000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0


Best regards, congratulations for the great work done so far.

Christophe Jacquet.
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Re: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on Dell Inspiron 8500

2003-12-07 Thread Christophe Jacquet 
Mark Vojkovich wrote:

   Did it used to work?  I've never had one of these laptops myself
so I've never tested on one.
Actually, it is the first time I try to get XFree86 working on this laptop.


   Does hitting the Font key fix it up again?
What do you mean with Font key ? If you think of a key enabling to 
toggle display expansion, to my knowledge there is no such key on the 
Inspiron 8500.

However, I've found out that Diego Santa Cruz, who also owns an Inspiron 
8500, notes [1]: I experienced problems when coming from graphical mode 
back to text mode in that the screen would be all garbled. I disabled 
the display expansion in the BIOS and the problem disappeared.

Regards,

Christophe.

[1] http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/dell-i8500-linux

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