From: John H. Kim (jokim_at_mit.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 04 1996 - 16:19:14 EST
A question and a report.
A pixel on my 701c's active matrix display has started to go bad.
It was stuck on (blue) for a while, then went back to working,
then got stuck on again, and seems to have decided to stay that
way. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to save my
otherwise flawless TFT.
I got the XFree86 3.2 SVGA driver and installed it with Redhat
Linux 4.0. I changed XF86Config to reflect a 16bpp depth and
added a 25Hz clock. Fired it up and presto - X-Windows in 32k colors
on my TP701. It's slow, but it makes graphics apps and web page
browsing bearable now. There is a slight problem when I first start
up X - the display seems to have "static" and there are vertical bars
of slightly different color. But they go away if I switch to the
Fn-F1 BIOS setup screen or suspend the machine, then go back to X.
Same thing applies if I switch between the console and X.
-- John H. Kim jokim_at_mit.edu
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