LCD's AGAIN

[J. Stewart Schneider]

/rant
OK...I'm near the breaking point. I'm going on eBay, and I'm going to find a
TRS-80 Model III, and I'm going to program in BASIC and Z80 assembler, and
give up all contact with humanity. All over an LCD.

I had a local hardware guy put in a 160G drive to replace the 40. He thinks
there's room in this goofy Gateway case for only one HD. I don't know if
that's true or not. Nonetheless, after telling me he understood Linux file
structures, what he did was take the single partition 160G and Ghost the
contents of the 40G over to it, so I wound up with an unpartitioned 160G
drive pretending to be a 40G with three partitions, one of them swap.

I've got the old 40, so it's not a calamity, but once again I CANNOT GET THE
BLEEPING LCD TO WORK CORRECTLY.
rant/

Whew. I feel better. Here's what I've tried: from a terminal, I stopped kdm,
issued dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg then restarted kdm. On the LCD,
I get bupkis. The logon screen will come up (X is handling that, right?) but
then the screen goes black. This happened before, come to think of it, and I
was able to log in as another user, so it's something in KDE.

I ran the entire dpkg-reconvigure xserver-xorg. Calamity. Monitor throws
warnings that the timing is wrong. Black screens.

I followed all the suggestions at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83973

I used the modeline calculator to calculate a modeline for 1280x1024.

Yaaaaa! Why is this so hard? What am I doing wrong? Xorg.0.log contains some
warnings, to wit:

(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported.
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) I810(0): config file hsync range 28-33kHz not within DDC hsync range
30-70kHz
(WW) I810(0): config file vrefresh range 43-72Hz not within DDC vrefresh
range 50-160Hz

These are followed by a great number of screen resolutions of this form:
*(WW) (1280x1024 at 75,SYS-172L) mode clock 135MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz

The only reason I can read this at all is that I swapped out the SYS-172L
flat panel for a generic CRT.

Helphelphelphelp....I don't wanna go back to a TRS-80. They had really
crappy video.

stew
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