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From: "L. Scott Emmons" <scotte@center.uscs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems w/FreeBSD on Thinkpad 560
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 10:04:16 -0700
Organization: CableData R&D Center, El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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To: Matt Mosley <mattm@black-cat.igloo.org>
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Matt Mosley wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm having some really irritating problems with FreeBSD 2.2.1 on an IBM
> Thinkpad 560. Hopefully someone out there has experience with FreeBSD on one
> of these things and can help.
> [...]
>
> First of all, I can't for the life of me make XFree86 work properly with the
> display. I've tried all the setup utils, I've tried entering "common" clocks
> by hand, etc. No dice. It refuses to work in 800x600 mode, only in 640x480
> with 256 colors, which is virtually useless.
You are probably stuck with 640x480. I've installed FreeBSD ONCE on a Thinkpad,
and this was all the LCD could do. Windoze works with 800x600 because they have
the necessary drivers required to make it work. XFree does NOT have the drivers
to talk to whatever proprietary hardware is onboard. It ain't normal SVGA...
> Finally, whenever I start up X on it and exit it, the screen gets totally
> screwed up; nothing I've tried restores it. All the characters become
> unreadable, on all vty's.
Ran into this one too, but don't recall what I did about it...
Sorry this doesn't help much,
-Scott
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