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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik <esigra@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 |
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> characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the |
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> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 |
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> aquired 5 years earlier, with radeon driver. That old device worked fine |
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> without any configuration files. The physical screen size was detected |
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> and the virtual kernel output switched to 75 × 240 characters as soon as |
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> the device was detected.) |
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Hi Erik, |
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It would help if you actually told us which driver you are using, and |
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what the actual hardware is. I'm guessing it's an nVidia card in the |
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new laptop, and some form of ATI card in the old one. It sounds like |
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the driver is over-riding the xorg.conf with (incorrect) readings it's |
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getting from the EDID for the display. |
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Cheers, |
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RobbieAB. |
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