xorg.conf for Compaq Armada 110

[Jan Stary]

On Jul 05 21:22:12, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 7/5/08, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
> > Dear laptopers,
> >
> > during the honorable quest of converting my wife's laptop from win to fbsd,
> > I came across the following problem.
> >
> > It's a Compaq Armada 110; everything works as it should _except_
> > running X just blanks the screen and freezes the machine (can't
> > even ping it). The graphics device is
> >
> > 	Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a)
> > 	Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation CyberBlade i1 AGP
> >
> > A workaround is to specify the graphics devoce driver as (generic)
> > "vga" instead of the (Xorg -configure)'d "trident" in xorg.conf.
> > That makes X able to start (with a ridicuslously low resolution and
> > ugly colors).
> >
> 
> What about replacing "vga" with "vesa"?

Good enough, thanks!

	jan