tlug: Mebius GD7548 blues

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

Greetings all, 

Over the last few days (seems like years) I have 
been trying to install TurboLinux 2.0 Lite, 
Jp version in my Sharp Mebius PC-A445, purchased 
in Japan. The video card is Cirrus CL-GD7548, 1MB of 
RAM. 

Everything seems to be working fine -except 
xfree86, which I can't get going for the life of 
me. Some kind of wizardry is needed to make it 
this fly. I was hoping that perhaps someone here 
might be that sort of wizard. 
I would appreciate any advice you may be able 
to provide on the subject. 

By the way, I found this notice on a wfree86 FAQ. 
I spent several hours trying all different 
kinds of configurations, but nothing 
worked without some hitch or other. 



Q.F9- Cirrus CL-GD754x chips

There is a driver for these chips in the current SVGA server, however it has been reported not to work correctly on all systems. A
possible work-around is to treat it as another chip (such as "clgd5428", for a CL-GD7543, or "clgd5436", for a CL-GD7548), using
a Chipset line, in which case should probably also disable acceleration (Option "noaccel"). Also, some people have reported
success after modifying the 800x600 modeline to use a lower dot clock, or by decreasing some of the horizontal timing parameters.




             Tony Laszlo  laszlo@example.com (Jiyugaoka, Tokyo)
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