From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:32:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030830082746.01fd7170@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AKsB3CAKDMU$EwFp@gcbagley.demon.co.uk>
At 05:20 PM 8/30/2003 +0200, geoff bagley wrote:
>I have a TATUNG (Vibrant) VL7A 17" TFT LCD display.
>
>It works very well on SuSE 8.0 Linux at 1280 by 1024 pixels.
>
>SuSE recognizes it and auto-configures.
>
>However, I can't find a way to make it work on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
>(Woody). As you may imagine, it doesn't appear in the list of supported
>displays. I have so far tried vesa, but with no luck.
>
>I can get Mutt, and also Midnight-Commander to work OK, but I guess
>without using X.
When SuSE "recognizes" it, what does it then "auto-configure" it *as*? SuSE
will be writing an XF86Config-4 file that describes the configuration ...
and, just possibly, setting up some kernel modules (a framebuffer, maybe)
... and you should be able to use its results to guide you in setting up Woody.
BTW, selections like vesa choose video cards, not displays. What video card
(or chipset, if this is a laptop) are you using?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-30 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-30 15:20 TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux geoff bagley
2003-08-30 15:32 ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
2003-08-30 17:15 ` geoff bagley
2003-08-30 17:32 ` Ray Olszewski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-31 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-08-31 7:37 ` geoff bagley
2003-08-31 15:25 ` Ray Olszewski
2003-08-31 17:08 ` geoff bagley
2003-09-02 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-09-02 8:54 ` pa3gcu
2003-09-02 14:39 ` Ray Olszewski
2003-09-06 0:00 Heimo Claasen
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