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Orethrius:
I recently purchased an HP dv8210us Pavilion notebook (Leviathan, per my sig) to act as a replacement for Frankystein after its screen failed. I got most of the way through X config, loading Fluxbox, and so forth - but I'm having the strangest issues with X (though this in no way impacts the console, so I'm convinced it's a misconfig in xorg.conf). Under any WM, when I use xterm or lynx or anything that uses text-display for that matter, entire vertical portions of text are missing. I'm thinking this is a modeline issue, but I've found a number of conflicting "solutions" to this issue and would like a rundown of what REALLY needs to be done. Additionally, the color depth on my 200M won't go higher than 4 (16-bit IIRC), but I suspect that's due to using the generic VGA drivers (X doesn't recognise ati or radeon for some reason, probably my fault). Here's what I have thus far:

--- Code: ---Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Modeline "1440x900" 119.12 1440 1728 1760 1840 900 1052 1058 1080
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False",
### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # []
#Option "KGAUniversal" # []
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

--- End code ---

Any help would be greatly appreciated (btw this is an x86_64 build, the card - as indicated above - is a Radeon 200M, 9000 is the internal ref IIRC).

piratePenguin:
I never have a Modeline in my xorg.conf, I always specify the HorizSync and VertRefresh in the Monitor section and then have a Modes "1024x768" line in the Display subsection of the Screen section, I wonder is there a difference?..

H_TeXMeX_H:
What distro are you running ? Is there any way to auto configure it ?

I suppose I can't help much, I'm horrible at configuring things myself.

_kill__bill:
1) Wouldn't this belong under tech support?

2) Try a different set of drivers or a different X server.

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I never have a Modeline in my xorg.conf, I always specify the HorizSync and VertRefresh in the Monitor section and then have a Modes "1024x768" line in the Display subsection of the Screen section, I wonder is there a difference?..
--- End quote ---

That's fine and good, but I'm dealing with a 17" widescreen here. It doesn't display 4:3 ratios right, so something needs to be done to switch it to 16:9 and I'm not sure what.

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---What distro are you running ? Is there any way to auto configure it ?
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Gentoo, installed from the AMD64 2006.0 Universal CD. Unfortunately, that IS the auto-configure output (X -configure) except that I manually changed /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice to fix input support. That Modeline is experimental, and apparently non-functional.

--- Quote from: _kill__bill ---1) Wouldn't this belong under tech support?
--- End quote ---

Moved thread, thanks.

--- Quote from: _kill__bill ---2) Try a different set of drivers or a different X server.
--- End quote ---

--- Quote from: me ---Additionally, the color depth on my 200M won't go higher than 4 (16-bit IIRC), but I suspect that's due to using the generic VGA drivers (X doesn't recognise ati or radeon for some reason, probably my fault).
--- End quote ---

The only other thing I can think of is to use another card's drivers, but I can't help feeling that's the WORST thing to do. I'm not going to try XFree or XModular because, like I said, this problem directly affects neither the execution of programs nor the console (to say nothing of the fact that it took me twenty hours to persuade it to work in the first place). It's really an asthetic problem, but it's bad enough to prevent me from making any headway in text-based X programs. I don't believe there's no solution to this somewhere, it just seems that all the sites that provide one disagree on it.

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