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January 17th, 2009, 11:58 PM
The laptop is a Everex StepNote NM3500W. After installing Xubuntu 8.10 during booting the logo is over in the lower right hand part of the the screen. After It boots you only see the upper leftmost 2/3rds of the desktop. There is no panning either, if you mouse over to the edge the pointer keeps going. Selecting any of the resolutions in the display options list changes it to a horribly corrupted unreadable display.
So far I've tried dpkg-reconfigure and reinstalling the openChrome drivers but neither had any effect. I tried searching the forums here and google but only found people having 3d problems with that card/driver.
lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 4330
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version
xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Thanks for any help. I'd really like to make this work after I told my friend how much better he would like this :)
Edit: Damn small linux boots up fine. It looks a little stretched because its not at a widescreen resolution but the desktop fits the screen properly.
So far I've tried dpkg-reconfigure and reinstalling the openChrome drivers but neither had any effect. I tried searching the forums here and google but only found people having 3d problems with that card/driver.
lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 4330
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version
xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Thanks for any help. I'd really like to make this work after I told my friend how much better he would like this :)
Edit: Damn small linux boots up fine. It looks a little stretched because its not at a widescreen resolution but the desktop fits the screen properly.