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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you xcable...Those are the types of number I would expect.

Well I thought I had it solved, I uninstalled the Nvidia driver from their site and deleted the kernel module, then I emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and restarted X.

opened up a terminal and ran glxgears, holy cow I was getting about 4000-5000 FPS. So I figured I fixed it.
I opened up OO.org and started working on a document then I went back to run glxgears just to confirm, now I am back to crappy 620 FPS.

Crazy thing is that when I use xorg-x11 opengl I get about 1400 FPS but with nvidia's I get 600.

if anybody could give me suggestions I would appreciate it, here is some info:

Code:
eslackey@laptop eslackey $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x1f004312
eslackey@laptop eslackey $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          NVIDIA
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Enabled
SBA:             Enabled
eslackey@laptop eslackey $


and from my xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "Device"
   Identifier "geforce4-448-go"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   Option      "NvAgp"          "1"
   Option      "IgnoreEDID"     "true"
   Option      "NoLogo"         "true"
   Option      "RenderAccel"    "true"
   Option      "HWCursor"       "true"
EndSection


if anybody has any advice I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use XFree 4.3 and nvidia version 1.0.4496.

Code:

cerebro-hp hholcomb # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x1f004102


Code:

cerebro-hp hholcomb # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          AGPGART
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Disabled


Note the that I'm using the "AGPGART" driver while your using the "NVIDIA" driver for your AGP port. That might mean something, might not.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:22 pm    Post subject: definitive linux install guide? Reply with quote

hey guys,

this thread is very helpful, but i feel that tips and advice pertaining to installing gentoo on the zd7000 are scattered in too many places on the internet. i am planning to install gentoo linux on my zd7000 and was wondering if there is _the_ definitive, comprehensive installation guide for this notebook (all tips and pitfalls put in one document).

the other alternative is to follow gentoo's own installation handbook -- has anyone followed that book to the T and gotten a smooth installation on the zd7000?

things i'd like to know include whether i should use the i686 build or the pentium 4 build, is gnome 2.6 faster than the newest kde, what options to use to compile the fastest stable kernel, is hyper-threading and power management fully supported, etc. etc. my experience with linux is strictly sh scripting, cvs, and other console development -- i have no experience with linux gui setups, kernel compiles, and other such things dealing with installing linux on the desktop.

thanks in advance,
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is no definitive ZD7000 guide because HP does not support Linux on there PCs (only there servers).

Your asking some very generic questions about Linux and GNU programs in general. If you are wanting just to get Linux working on your Laptop and don't care about learning the in's and out's, then Gentoo is probably not the distribution (aka. distro) to use. For an easy GUI based install take a look at SUSE, Mandarke, and Febora; those are the big consumer grade distros.

I wrote this as a just a guide for Linux on the ZD7000, it's not a detailed step by step procedure. For that you will have to get a book on Linux installation or do alot of reading on the i-net.

We (the linux community) are glade to help out anybody we can. We pride ourselves on that. Just post questions/problems you have with on specific issues and well help.

We are some "answers" to your questions (mostly my opinion).

- use pentium4 (you need gcc 3.1 or greater)
- gnome loads faster, but anything else varies
- march=pentium4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math
- hyper-threading in beta (works good I think, don't have any personal experience)
- power management is buggy (suppend/sleep)

Other tibits.

KDE is large and the "slowest" of all the DEs (desktop enviroments) in Linux, but with our hardware you want notice to much a difference, also it's about the level of XP (except for the inital loading); it's getting faster with every release; it's has the most native applications (QT based); most integrated; most configurable; closest to widows type system; best programers framework

Gentoo runs faster than other distros because of the optimizations used to compile the software.

Gentoo makes you learn Linux (that's a good thing you want it).



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks a lot, heath, you've been a lot of help.

i've been reading most of the linux distro reviews out there, and i've decided on gentoo mainly for these reasons:

1. i'm sold on their portage system
2. it's fast
3. it let's me pick and choose what i want installed
4. more frequent access to updates/patches (see #1)
5. i'm always up for a challenge! :-)

fyi, my second choice is mepis, but it comes with an older kernel so at the moment i'm learning toward gentoo, which gives me the freedom to use the latest version of everything.

cheers,
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Post any questions or problems you have. Gook luck and have fun!!

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:46 pm    Post subject: stupid heat Reply with quote

Anyone planning on playing doom3 on their zd series notebook? I have the 17" screen and the 5600go in mine, but I don't know if it can take the heat. Anyone have it shutdown for heat issues? I just did a emerge -up world and there was a bunch of kde stuff, and it bombed out on kde-libs(although it did go though the shutdown routine, so no harm done). This is the second time it's happened since I bought it, usually when I prop the back up about a half inch it's fine, but when it goes way too long it tends to over heat.

Anyway, I'm one of the reservees' of doom3, going to play it as soon as the linux port is ready(buying it the day it comes out though). I don't run windows at all, so I do have to wait for the linux stuff. I have an old hospital table, the kind thats a C shape that goes over-under the bed for patients use, and took off the fold up mirror and the tray thing underneath so there's a big hole that the fans can draw air from. I was thinking of getting one of those dryer hoses, the ones for cloths dryers, with the aluminum foil. I could rig that up to draw air from underneath my desk where it's about 10 degrees cooler(I only have this notebook, no desktop) maybe the aluminum foil would also work as a heat-sink? Yep, I'll look pretty funny with my special desk for playing doom3, but oh well.

Anyway, anyone else have special tricks to getting this notebook to run cooler? Also, is there a temp monitor for linux that works for this notebook? Another also, is there a program that would max out my processor and video card so I can test my desk out and see if I really need that dryer hose(again, it need to run on linux)? I sopose I can just run ut2k4, but that hasn't shut it down yet.

Thanx,
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:53 pm    Post subject: heat Reply with quote

I have never had a heat problem. Make sure that the ZD7000 is placed on a smooth flat surface, like a desk. There are two fans on the left side underneth the case, these areas must be clear of anything that could impede air in take.

In your kernel make sure to enable "Make CPU Idle calls when idle" under the the APM section.

You should not have a problem with heat. If you do take it back and get a replacement.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:59 am    Post subject: Domain name problem Reply with quote

Im sorry, i've been looking around but i can't find a way to change the
computername.unknown_domain thing at startup to
conputername.mydomain.com

i already added the dnsdomainname entry but dont know what else to do


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:03 am    Post subject: Just another Q Reply with quote

Im completely consufused with installing the GIU
now there is x.org and xfree86 can you recommend me one that you consider best from your experience or if anyone knows a place to read a comparison between the two?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:44 am    Post subject: Please discard my previous questions Reply with quote

Never mind to my previous questions, I have solved both problems.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm just about to purchase one of these baby's and was looking for some feedback:

Anyone running the 3.2 or 3.4 and do they put out a lot of heat? Are these HOT laptop's?

THis is what I'm thinking about:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.20 GHz w/HT Technology
17.0" WVA WSXGA+ BrightView (1680x1050)
128MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) FX Go5700
1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)
60 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
FREE Upgrade from DVD to DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive!!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since no more else is responding, I guess I will.

I have the 2.8 GHz version, and I have NOT experience any heat problems. Others who have the 3.2 have said something about POSSIBLE heat problems; but I find it hard to believe that HP would produce a product that would have heat problems. The possible heat problems could be a case of not placing this laptop on a flat surface, the CPU fans intake air from the bottom of the case.

The new screen resolution must be really really nice. I have the original 1440x900. I WISE I could get a newer screen. If anyone at HP is watching this thread, could I get a new screen (will to pay)!!!

I have 1GB of RAM. It's a must if you run VMware (win2k and winnt 4.0).

I highly recommend you get the DVD burner!


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thx for the reply,

Can you add an extra hd to them? Is there another bay that is usable w/out giving up the cd-rom bay?

I'm looking at several laptops and the zd7000 looks like the best bang for the buck + the nvidia Go5700 is a plus for us Linux users.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm unaware of an extra bay. Were is it? I have already taken apart much of the laptop, and I have seen no extra space.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was a? ;-) & I believe you just answered it!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I went ahead and bought the zd7260 tonight.

I'll need to upgrade the ram in a week or so, but other than that I like it!

I'll be putting gentoo on here this weekend or beginning next week, i have a busy weekend.

thx for all the info.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the zd7040 and like it very much. I wish I would have known about the higher resolution screen when I bought mine because the screen display just didn't look quite as good as others I seen while shopping. Anyway it has the 2.8Ghz P4 with 512Mb of ram and DVD-RW.

I set the machine up to dual boot XPpro and Linux version 2.6.7-gentoo-r13. This thread has gotten me off to a good start but I still have some issues.

1.)First is the acpi problem. Maybe I did something wrong has anyone upgraded to the lastest kernel rev with gentoo sources yet? I can only do a dmesg once and then after that all I see is acpi debug errors. I would post all of the output of the errors but I'm on the windows machine for internet. Can't get x to run yet either. The errors are mostly related to:

"CMBatt - CHBP.BAT1"
"CMBatt - BAT1 connected"
etc...
[acpi debug] integer: 0x00000000000000F1

2.)no sound, even hitting the backspace key at the prompt won't make a beep.

3.)mouse pad doesn't work.
(EE) mouse(0) no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
It works great off the LiveCD though.

4.)can't startx or kdm. Nvidia screen shows up breifly then it dies.
(II) Mouse(0) no synaptics event device found

I did check my hardware by: cat /dev/psaux and then moving the mouse
It seems to work ok.

I think if I fix the mouse problem x will work.

5.) Last thing is the mode line in my xorg.conf doesn't seem to work.
Log check:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The user specified HorizSync "31.500-90.000" has been adjusted to "31.500-55.000"
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The user specified VertRefresh "59.000-75.000" has been adjusted to "59.000-60.000"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using "1440x900@55" (vrefresh out of range)

Here is my modeline:
Code:
ModeLine "1440x900@55" 97.54 1440 1472 1840 1872 900 919 927 946
ModeLine "1280x800@60" 83.9 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841


The final thing that puzzles me is when I vim xorg.conf it won't show some parameters in the usual purple color.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[0]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't had time to put gentoo on here yet, but here are some entrys from X from a fast suse install
Code:

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS1"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS2"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS3"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS4"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS5"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS6"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS7"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS8"
  InputDevices "/dev/psaux"
  InputDevices "/dev/logibm"
  InputDevices "/dev/sunmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/atibm"
  InputDevices "/dev/amigamouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/atarimouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/inportbm"
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
  InputDevices "/dev/mouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/usbmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/adbmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/event0"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer0"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer1"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer2"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer3"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "v4l"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "speedo"
  Load         "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "Keyboard"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "ButtonNumber" "2"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
  DisplaySize  320 240
  HorizSync    29-66
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "1680X1050@60HZ"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "--> LCD"
  VertRefresh  40-61
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline    "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
  Modeline    "1600x1024" 133.96 1600 1704 1872 2144 1024 1025 1028 1059
  Modeline    "1600x1000" 129.95 1600 1696 1864 2128 1000 1001 1004 1035
  Modeline    "1400x1050" 120.46 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1086
  Modeline    "1280x1024" 106.97 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1059
  Modeline    "1280x960" 99.36 1280 1352 1488 1696 960 961 964 993
  Modeline    "1152x864" 80.17 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 894
  Modeline    "1024x768" 63.04 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795
  Modeline    "800x600" 37.52 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
  Modeline    "640x480" 23.46 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
  Modeline    "1400x1050" 120.46 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1086
  Modeline    "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
  Modeline    "1400x1050" 120.46 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1086
  Modeline    "1280x1024" 106.97 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1059
  Modeline    "1280x960" 99.36 1280 1352 1488 1696 960 961 964 993
  Modeline    "1152x864" 80.17 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 894
  Modeline    "1024x768" 63.04 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795
  Modeline    "800x600" 37.52 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
  Modeline    "640x480" 23.46 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1400x1050"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1680x1050" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "1400x1050"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1400x1050"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "0x0347"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "nv"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection


Like I said, that was from a Suse Install which uses xfree4.3.99 something and I do have the Higher monitor so I'm not sure if the smaller settings will work on your or not. My touchpad mouse and "USB" mouse bother work with the settings above. My biggest trouble on this box is getting "WIRELESS" to work. Other than haveing the Intergrated Broadcom, I decieded to get a Netgear 611 with the prism54 driver, because it sounds like it is better supported in Linux and it's even in the newer kernels.

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Prism54 1.2 has been released. The 2.6.7-bk3 and 2.6.7-mm1 have prism54 1.2. A patch was just submitted to add prism54 1.2 to the 2.4 stock kernel.

So hopefully one of these days I will get the wireless working and some more time to install gentoo. I'm debating on weather or not I need windows on here or not. I don't use windows and don't have it running on any other box other than my wifes, but I'm not sure If I might need it for BIOS updates or something like that??? Plus my wife can always use it if I leave winblinds on here (that might not be a good thing) ;-)
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

I'll have to try this and see if X comes up. Does anyone have an Xorg.conf that works for this laptop that I could look at?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xfree86-zd7045

That's an XFree from a 7045 which is the same as your screen. Keep in mind that Xfree & xorg are pretty much the same thing so you should have no problems cutting the vaules out and placing them in yours.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why does your mode lines look so different. I thought you had the new high res screen. Mine is the old one.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine, not the last one I posted has 1680x1050??? I noticed I do need to add that to the Depth of 24 though.

As soon as I get my 60GB 7200rpm drive I'll be putting Gentoo on here. Suse was nice for detecting everything ;-)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cyberjackle,

I copied your file into my xorg.conf and after much editing do to missing "" marks all over the place and fixing other parsing errors here is what I get:

(EE) Mouse[1]: Unknown protocol "ExplorerPS2"
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse[1]"
(EE) Mouse[3]: Unknown protocol "explorerps2"
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse[3]"
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices

I can't wait to see someones xorg.conf file that has this laptop. It seems everyone is using xfree86-4 right now. What gives? Why doesn't the server flag "AllowMouseOpenFail" allow me to bring x up without the mouse?

I also noticed you are using the nv driver instead of the nvidia driver. No hardware graphics acceleration. Not good.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just copied that to e-mail after the system was installed so I didn't loose it or forget to do it when I go to install gentoo.

New hd should be here in 2 days!
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