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Setting dell gx270 with dell 1901FP screen and X


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Hi,

 

I have a Dell Optiplex gx270 with a Dell 1901FP TFP screen and video on the motherboard (intel 856 chipset) and I add problems to get X starting not garbled.

 

I have found a way through and I hope it can help somebody, like it would have me...

 

- download BIOS version A06 from Dell and install from a Windows OS (I had A02).

now (feb 05) at:

 

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...0&fileid=113058

 

- at boot enter BIOS setup (F2) and find the menu Interated Devices (LegacySelect Options)

- in this menu, the last entry is Video Buffer and is default to 1MB, chose the other option

which was 8 MB.

- start linux. In terminal (Alt-Ctrl-F1) login as root and launch: xorgconfigure

 

-answer with:

-whatever mouse suits you

-enter the exact Horizontal sync range: 30-80

-enter the exact Vertical sync range : 56-76

-look at card database and select Intel i810

-enter the VideoRam for 8 MB

-chose the 16bit defDepth

 

-edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and verify:

-VertRefresh is 56-76 (without double quote)

-VideoRam 8192 (without double quote)

-Keyboard layout is right for your locale

-startx and it should work...

-launch drakx11 and verify 16bit, Customized card and monitor (do not reset to i810 and Dell1902FP,

it will fail again !)

 

This setup works, but I did not try other possibilities, like Intel own drivers for Linux and several 865patch

one can find with a web search.

 

Regards

 

François

 

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