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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nicklas and Damien, Yeah I noticed both problems, fn+F1 doesn't work for me
either (tried xev and no response) also color depth seems to be a problem
for me as well. I tried putting in an xorg.conf like this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

but it doesn't seem to help.

Finally, FYI I did post my ubuntu installation instructions in the
ubuntuforums here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850544

DoTheDog

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 2011-09-27 10:55, Damien R wrote:
>
> On 26 September 2011 22:45, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> NIcklas, Well over the weekend, I tried installing the fglrx driver from
>> ATI and it completely blew up my install. I ended up reinstalling from
>> scratch, following my notes. A couple of things, 1. I will wait for better
>> support of the PMD Graphics card before trying again ;) 2. I didn't need to
>> upgrade MESA to get full 3d/compiz working with the 3.1.0-rc6 kernel. MESA
>> 7.10.2 works just fine. Everything else went in fine as per my notes. vaio
>> patched kernel, WWAN, Clickpad, Power Management, FN buttons, etc. Maybe
>> I'll post my install notes. See if you can see anything different.
>>
>
> Nice !
> I have a question regarding FN Buttons, does FN+F1 key work ? For me, the
> key is not recognized even with the xev utility.
>
> Regards,
> Damien R.
>
>  No, my fn+f1 is not working.. not even in wintendo 7 :)
>
> Btw, I discovered something strange during the weekend....
>
> I'm on RC6 kernel, stable mesa. When i'm using the laptop with the onboard
> screen, it looks like the color depth is 16 bits -> crappy drawing of
> gradients and transparency in my terminals is kind of ugly. On the other
> hand, when i'm using the external display via HDMI, it's runinng 24 bits (or
> what ever it's called), so nice gradients, perfect transparency etc.
>
> I wonder how that is? Is the onboard screen reporting something weird to X
> or another subsystem? Or is X or subsystem Y failing to recgonize that the
> onboard screen is capable of higher colordepths?
>
> My 5 cents for now :) I'm waiting for the open-source ATI graphics stack to
> pick up the support - the Catalyst drivers has also destroyed a big part of
> my setup a week ago, managed to recover though.
>
> /Nicklas
>
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