[ale] XF86 on Compaq Armada 1700

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Hi everyone,

I just picked up a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, and I'm in the
midst of configuring XFree86 (this is a Slackware 7.1 install),
XFree is v3.3.6).

Anyone else have one of these beasties? Anyhow, I'm having
a weird problem:

All the info I can find on the web indicates that this
thing should be happy running in 16bpp, 1024x768 mode.
While it will certainly start up that way, and look nice,
I can only see the top-left 800x600 chunk of the desktop,
which fills the entire screen. If I run the mouse off
the edge it just disappears; it doesn't scroll as it
would for a virtual desktop. I have "Virtual 0 0" in my
XF86Config, so I should be seeing the entire desktop.

I notice that upon startup, the SVGA server says:

(--) SVGA: CHIPS: Display Size: x=800; y=600.

(This chipset is Chips&Technologies 65555, I think that's
what the "CHIPS" is about.) I suspect that this means the
display is physically 800x600 pixels, but if that's true,
I wonder how others are able to run the same machine at
1024x768? Were there different versions of this machine with
different displays? Anyone got one running at 1024x786?

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka
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