Linux has poor multimedia features 1738
I have posted this to comp.os.linux.networking but have no follow-up. So I am posting it again to comp.os.linux.misc. ----------------------------- snip ------------------------------------ I am trying to compile telnet...
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:29:15 +0000 (UTC), Wayne Dernoncourt staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Um. This is *weird*. In a big company like IBM, though, it wouldn't surprise me if the people writing the documentation had never seen the hardware they're writing documentation for.
Probably 1024x768.
Fedora Core is in a "permanent rolling beta" state, so many things are less than optimal.
Yep, i830. Back up youretc-X11-xorg.conf file, then edit that file with a text editor (nedit, kate, pico, nano, emacs, vim...) and find the Device section for your video card. Change the Driver line in that section to: Driver "i810" ...and read the man page for i810 to find out about all the options you can set. You may also want to edit the Modes line(s) so they look like the following: Modes "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" ...and you should be able to use the LCD's native resolution. Finally, edit the HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges so that they're about double what their default values are. (LCDs don't *have* sync rates, but doing that will keep X happy in smaller-than-native Modelines.)
Restart X with the new xorg.conf file, if it fails, look invar-log-Xorg.0.log for the reason why. Keep hacking on it until it's fixed. If insanely stressed, move xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.notworkingyet, restore backed-up xorg.conf, and drink a beer.
Check the reports on tuxmobil.org for the R31, learn from others' mistakes, apply knowledge. Profit!
? If you have an xorg.conf file that allows you to use most-all of the features of your card, video is correctly configured. If "xconfig" is a Fedora-specific script-app, stay away from it. There are generally many problems with them. You're usually better off running "X -configure" and hand-editing the resulting xorg.conf file to set the default color depth to 16 or 24 and do whatever other tweaks are necessary.
Hm. Try to narrow down the "sometimes works, sometimes doesn't" thing, and it'll be much easier to suggest remedies. If sound works before suspend-to-RAM and fails afterwards, have your ACPI scripts rmmod all sound modules before suspend and reload them on wakeup. Or see if there are any reports of sound problems on tuxmobil, and try the remedies suggested there. HTH,
For user level programs there should virtually *never* be a need to include from theusr-include-linux directory. But...
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