> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schiavon, Jose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:01 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
>
>
> I had a problem last week when I upgraded from LM 6.0 to LM 6.1 on my
> laptop. The problem I had was with the pcmcia support. The
> solution I came
> with is to boot from a floppy, remove the
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S??pcmcia file and upgraded the kernel to
> 2.2.13-22 and
> initscripts RPMS from an updates directory in a Mandrake mirror site.
I posted a while back about the issue I had with 6.1 and PCMCIA - it
was compiled to talk to the BIOS for i/o and INT info - my laptop did not
like that. Say "no" to the 3rd question when running configure for the
PCMCIA support (see archives)
> Also, during the installation of X, the configuration does
> not allow me to
> select other resolution different to 640x480. To fix this I have the
> following in my XF86Config (note the DefaultColorDepth and
> Modes entries):
<snip>
There's a better X server for NeoMagic out there - it's been a while
since I dealt with this chipset so there may now be support in XFree86 - see
http://www.precisioninsight.com/faq.html for current info...
Don
