I have a thinkpad 1412 with celeron 333 and neomagic magicmedia card. I installed mandrake 7.0 on it. The way I found the video card was in running XF86Setup. There is a listing for a neomagic video card and for a laptop/lcd screen. I selected those and made sure the video modes were ordered as I desired, with the default I desired (800x600) and that was that. Works. praedor Don wrote: > > Both 7.0-2 and 7.1 versions run great on my LapTop thinkpad with the NeoMagic > graphics card installed. Actually Mandrake 7.1 works the best, because it also > found my sound card, which no other version of Linux would do. > Good Luck, > > Don .... > > On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > > > Have just bought Sony PCG-F490 VAIO Notebook. Has Win98SE installed. > > Specs. > > Pentium III 650 MHz > > 128 MB SDRAM > > 18.1 GBdrive > > 15" XGA active matrix LCD (1024 x 768) TFT screen > > Graphics, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL with 6.0 MB VRAM > > Set aside and formatted 12 GB for Mandrake 7.0. 128 Swap, 50 boot, and > > the rest /. > > > > Problem: > > Can not get beyond a very minimal screen resolution (640x480). Have tried
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