X on a notebook (was Laptop Recommendations?)
Christopher White
cwhite at softquad.com
Fri Apr 13 18:55:05 PDT 2001
Thanx!
I'm sticking to Red Hat (had a lot of time invested in configuration, and
this notebook has to mirror a development server), but I went to
http://www.linux-laptop.net/xfree86.html as you suggested, and found a
similar configuration, which I cut and pasted into my own XF86Config-4 file.
I then started X and TA-DAA! It worked!
It's still all black magic to me. Why could't Xconfigurator figure it out?
Sheesh!
Thanx again!
--Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorie Obal [mailto:lobal at cds1.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 6:16 PM
> To: 'nblug-talk at lists.sonic.net'
> Subject: Re: X on a notebook (was Laptop Recommendations?)
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Christopher White wrote:
>
> > A timely thread! :-).
> >
> > I just got a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook yesterday, and as
> of today I'm
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea of how to get X to work on this notebook?
> >
> Yes, install Mandrake7.1.
>
> I just finished a successfull install on a Dell Lattitude
> (Dual-boot with
> Win2000 pro) after fighting to try to get RH6.2 to install
> (install always
> crashed at post-install config settings)
>
> I gave up on RH, threw in a freebie Mandrake GPL edition and
> the install
> was a breeze! No problem with Xwin coming up at all - might
> need a slight
> tweak though from chosen default.
>
> It even seemed to detect SCSI, although I haven't tested it yet.
>
> Be sure to check the Dell entries on the Linux on Laptops
> page, I'm sure
> they have specs for your model.
>
> I now stop for a victory beer.
>
> -Lorie
>
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