GXT4500P / Intellistation 285 / Fedora 17

[Dan Horák]

Julien Lazarewicz píše v St 12. 09. 2012 v 10:31 +0200:
> Thanks you for your answer.
> 
> Previously the system was running with debian stable.
> With debian I have no problem with crappy display.
> When I say crappy I mean a lot of glitches since the bootloader not
> only in X.
> 
> What is the good way to make it work ?
> Do I need to write manually xorg.conf (Howto) ?
> Do I need to give parameter in bootloader ?
> 
> I'm lost, all informations I found are outdated and don't work with
> fedora 17.

I did a test on 275 with GXT6500, here everything looks almost perfect,
only the bit depth is 8 by default, so with booting with the right
parameters should make it really perfect.

Dan

> Sorry for my very bad english.
> 
> 
> 2012/9/11 Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz>
>         Julien Lazarewicz píše v Út 11. 09. 2012 v 11:33 +0200: 
>         > I recently bought an instellistation 285. I installed Fedora
>         17 ppc
>         > without problem.
>         > I have some problem setting up the graphic card. X11 server
>         work, but
>         > display quality is crappy.
>         > I read that this card need fbdev and use GXT4500 kernel
>         module.
>         > I can't find kernel module.
>         
>         
>         the gxt4500 driver is built-in in the f17 kernel, the kernel
>         config file
>         contains CONFIG_FB_IBM_GXT4500=y, fbdev is the driver for Xorg
>         
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
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