Installation report build 08252005 on Tecra M2

Alvin Thompson alvin at thompsonlogic.com
Fri Aug 26 10:59:41 CDT 2005


Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> Installation went without any problems from stage 1 to stage 2,
> although at stage 2, monitor/lcd resolution was asked. When gdm
> starts, resolution is only at 640x480. It turned out xresprobe wasn't
> installed so I had to download it and reconfigure xserver-xorg. After
> that, everything was fine. You'll notice that Add/Remove Programs is
> located in Applications, but an update would fix it (along with at
> least 30MB worth of downloads).
> 
> Same observations as with Colony 3 on issues such as switching to an
> external monitor/lcd and sleep issue (freezing after turning back on).
> 
> 

it asks for the resolution on my emachines laptop as well (model M5414, 
SiS 760 chipset). it then gets the resolution wrong, anyway, and i have 
to manually set the driver to 'sis' in the xorg.conf file to get things 
working.

-alvin



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