On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> If you have X working on another distribution, just copy the XF86Config
> file to Slackware and you're golden. No big deal. Same thing for RedHat,
Well, I tried that before... back when I only had Mandrake 7.0 and SuSE
6.1... and it kludgingly worked... lots of font errors, as the two
distros kept fonts in different directories...
> If you're running on a new video card, you may need to make sure you have
> the latest version of XFree86 to support your card. You should be able to
> use XF86Setup after the install to get a working configuration on
> virtually any card supported by XFree86, provided you know what you have.
>
> I heard somewhere that RedHat has RPMs for XF86 4.0 too...
Yup. Mandrake 7.1, too. I'm using it now.
> BTW, What video card DO you have?
My laptop has a generic S3 Virge/MX that doesn't work with generic S3
Virge/MX drivers... Mandrake 7.1 (not 7.0), and sax under SuSE both
correctly identified it but still loaded generic svga drivers, so it
works fine... Of course, Mandrake seemed to think it was capable of
1024x768, but that was easily fixed...
Brian
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