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XF86 PB with Dell Latitude XPi P120

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From: Yves Mahe
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:00
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I have a weird XFree 86 problem with a portable notebook: Dell
Latitude XPi with TFT and P120. (chipset Cirrus CL-GD7543)

When I run X (SVGA 3.1.6 with chipset clgd5428), I get a screen 2/5
black. The beginning of the X display is right shifted. The fonts are
unreadable. When I try to use the 640x480 server, the font are a bit
fuzzy and there is an incremental difference between the displayed
pointer and where the mouse is seen on the screen.

+------------------+---------------------------------------+
|       	   |					   |
|     Black    	   |					   |
|     Part   	   |					   |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |		Xterm window 		   |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |---------------------------------------|
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |		Remaining of the X display |
|       	   |					   |
|       	   |		  .........................|
|       	   |		\/	^- some random dots|
|       	   |		/\.........................|
|       	   |		^			   |
|       	   |		|_ pointer         	   |
|       	   |					   |
+------------------+---------------------------------------+
^		   ^
|		   |_ beginning of the X display
|_ extrem right end of the X display (width: few dots)

I looked at different stuff on the net (including
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/latitude.xpi.html
) without much success.

A friend of mine is using a Dell Latitude Xpi with P90 with success. I
tried his XF86Config without success. I also tried to use the last XF
3.1.2B SVGA server with clgd7543 chipset. This time the black part is
smaller, but the display scrolls continuously like a wrongly tuned TV.

I would appreciate any help in that matter.

Thanks in advance,

Yves

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From: mahe@lauziere.grenoble.rxrc.xerox.com (Yves Mahe)
Subject: XF86 PB with Dell Latitude XPi P120
Date: 1996/02/07
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