GXT4500P / Intellistation 285 / Fedora 17

[Dan Horák]

Dan Horák píše v St 12. 09. 2012 v 14:49 +0200: 
> 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 I'm lost, all informations I found are outdated and don't work with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.

I'd try append video=gxt4500:1280x1024-32 to your kernel paramters


Dan

> 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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