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On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:07:40PM -0800, walt wrote: |
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> On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > My 1.9.2 upgrade didn't lose the keys, but it thinks the screen has |
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> > fewer pixels than before, and what it does use is pushed off to the |
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> > right (there is a column down the left side, roughly 10-20% of the |
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> > screen, which is inaccessible). |
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> > I've included 3 logs -- the working 1.8.2, the failing 1.9.2, and the |
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> > failing /var/log/Xorg.0.log... |
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> The 'failing' log shows that the new Xorg-server is using the MACH64 driver, |
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> but your 'working' 1.8.2 log is truncated, so it doesn't tell us which video |
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> driver it was using successfully. |
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I'm about 99% certain that it has always used the mach64 driver. I |
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wish I had an old enough backup to recover an old log, but this |
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current size screwup has been in effect for a while. It's mostly a |
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server, so X isn't vital, but I do want to get it working again. |
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> Given only 8MB of video memory, maybe the vesa driver would work better? |
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> Dunno. Does your BIOS have a setting for the video "aperture"? |
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No. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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