Hi, Thank you for the answers, I didn't have time to check it yet, but I will try VESA. It should be an ATI (I don't remember by hart the exact version).
I installed there IceWM (I didn't thought to work with something heavier then that). Ido On Jan 27, 2008 4:51 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if Arch Linux is the best choice (I had tons of problems > with their packaging few months ago). > > You can try to use vesa driver in the xorg.conf and it should let you > have X although non accelerated. It really depends which chipset is > inside this machine (in the IBM World, "A21p" is not enough as there > are some models of A21p, you should also check what the "computer > type" is (it's in the bottom of the machine, 3 letters, 4 numbers) or > use /sbin/lspci to see what graphics chip you got. > > After setting it to VESA, you can play with the driver so you can > always at least have some stable config. > > As Gil said, 128MB is too small ram if you plan to run any desktop > (GNOME, KDE, Enlightment). You can use the lighter (fvwm, icewm, > blackwm, amiwm etc..) window management plus some "lite" apps. > > Thanks, > Hetz > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I'm tring to help some one to "rescue" an old laptop (thinkpad A21p) > > with 128M ram. So I have installed arch linux inside. Everything went > > well, until I tried to work with xorg. > > It seems that X just ignores my settings of resolution and color > > depth, and even worse, from time to time, it either go all while (the > > screen) or black and the entire machine get stack (even the sys resque > > magic does not work). This happens to me only with arch linux's xorg. > > I have tried it using xubuntu (that had other issues, like malformed > > drivers of orinoco, but not related to x), and even DSL, and non of > > them had this type of problem. > > > > I created the xorg.conf using X -configure and even when i changed the > > support for depth to 1 bit and the resolution to 640x480 (very small > > for a 15" lcd), it just place 800x600 and 24 bit color. It also > > display half a screen, the content of X, then it have blank until a > > point it painting the screen again like it is on origin 0,0. > > > > Any ideas what I should look for, and what might cause such issues ? > > > > Thanks, > > Ido > > -- > > http://ik.homelinux.org/ > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
