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ckx

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Posted: April 04 2006,20:33

I've installed DSL on an old IBM Thinkpad 310ED laptop with a 166Mhz MMx processor and 32M of RAM. Pretty amazing that it works at all perhaps. However, my question is about screen resolution. The thinkpad runs Win98 at 800x600x8 but I can only get DSL to work properly at 640x480x16. DSL will run at 800x600 but the colors are wrong, I think I'm getting only red and green. The icons don't show up on the desktop either. Changing the number of colors has no effect. Running Xvesa shows just a 640x480x16 button and that works well enough. I'd like a slightly larger screen though if possible. Any suggestions?

doobit

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Posted: April 04 2006,20:35

I guess I need to get one of those old IBMs so I can experiment.

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Posted: April 05 2006,00:09

Have you looked at:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx

??

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Posted: April 05 2006,11:25

Hi CKX!
I too have an IBM Thinkpad 310ED (but ran WIN95). So far I have had the same results as you 640x480x16. I did find a keyboard combo to help with windows that open too big - if you hold down the Alt key and press and hold the Right mouse button you can resize the window. Then when you need to center up the window hold down the Alt key again and press the Left mouse button and you can move the whole window. I'm not sure how you tell all windows what size you want them.

Did you have any luck setting up sound? - I got nothin.

I'm anxious to hear all your results - - I'm really amazed DSL runs on this old laptop

ckx

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Posted: April 06 2006,19:49

Quote (andrewb @ April 04 2006,20:09)

Have you looked at:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx

??

I tried running Xvesa -listmodes as the page suggests, just in a terminal window, not starting up in runmode. This indicates that 800x600x8 and 1024x768x8 should be options, using the vga codes shown under F3 at boot. But the vga cheatcodes don't seem to have an effect if I run Xvesa and I can't run xfbdev on this machine, it freezes up.

Just checked, running xsetup.sh and selectin xfbdev causes an error:

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO: fata IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on Xserver ":0:0"
after 0 requests (o known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I exited the window manager, ran xsetup.sh with xfbdev as xserver, then ran xstart. Xvesa works fine though.

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