Re: Centrino

[Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>]

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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:31:21PM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 09:57, Balram Adlakha wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > You mean the video card doesn't work properly? What happens when you run X etc?
> > Are you have trouble booting your centrino notebook or something?
> > The video card has got nothing to do with the cpu. Your centrino 
> > notebook should work normally. If you want to save power then you can 
> > select the power saving options in the config.
> 
> Well, the vided card does work, but seemingly not after you restart your
> X server. You get presented with a black screen after restarting X, and
> you can kill the X server from there, so it runs, just doesn't show
> anything.
> 
> The thinkpad boots, that is no problem. The powersaving has been brought
> to my attention as a possible source of problem. I already run it w/o
> ACPI, and will try disabling APM as well..
> 
> The other thing that has been highlighted to me is that there might be a
> problem with idle in the 2.4.20 kernel. I will be trying 2.4.21-rc1 over
> the weekend if that works better.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com>
> Trudheim Technology Limited

I think support for your video card was added in xfree 4.3. What 
version are you running now?

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