Which X for the jornada?

Faré fahree@gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 17:55:20 CEST 2005


On 25/07/05, Faré <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only X server in debian arm is xfree86, so I tried it with its
> fbdev driver. Close, but no cigar: it tries to change the resolution
> (or rather, the timings), the video driver issues the warning SA1100:
> invalid hsync_len 96, and the screen is blank until I kill X from a
> remote session.
Cigar!
I followed the suggestion in
 http://www.charmed.com/txt/framebuffer.txt
to use fbset and fbset -x to get the current timings and create
fb.modes and a X mode entry. It works. Yeehee!

Any volunteer to document that on the wiki?

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