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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: XF86Config for TI TravelMate?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 18:47:50 GMT
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loverso@osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) wrote:

> And here's the XF86Config I use with XF86-3.1.2[DE] on my TI 5200,
> at 800x600.  The trick to make that work is to disable the "MS DOS
> Display Expanded Mode" option, either from the BIOS setup, or the TI
> Setup program under Windows.  This config file doesn't work at
> 640x480 and, further, when X exits it doesn't restore the chipset
> for displaying plain text.  Hence, once X has been run, you can't
> work at the plain "console" interface anymore.

Hmm, these seem to be useful hints.  I'll try'em, thanks allot!

-- 
cheers, J"org

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