Re: TFT display on Debian GNU/Linux

Heimo Claasen
2003-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was indeed the Debian setup script that posed the problem, Ray.
I think we tried just every combination of including/excluding any of
the specific modules; doctored the X-configuration files etc. That was
now some month ago (March/April); in the meantime I've thrown away most
of the notes on all this. (Guarded the ones on the dubious video RAM
entry: it's quite possible that the problem is there, as resolutions
from a certain threshold on nay need sufficient video memory to allow for
the corresponding mode-lines in the config.)

BTW, both Debian-3.0/Woody and Mandrake-8.2 used the generic "nv" driver.
Thus the difference wasn't there either. We just couldn't find out where
the glitch was with Debian.

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