According to Alexei V. Ovsiannikov: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hello everybody!
> I have a problem with configuring X on my machine. My box is Compaq
> Presario 2110 with on-board video chip Cyrix GX. In addition I have no data
> on it (like amount of memory, chipset and so on), but it looks like one big
> chip (not like a standard video card). When I try to configure even a
> monochrome X-server and type startx, I see just stripes and waves and the
> machine immediately hangs up. I'm using X packages included into Caldera
> OpenLinux 1.1 distribution. Now I really think that there is no way to run
> Linux in graphical mode on that machine, but couldn't find a clear answer
> in mans and HOWTOs. If someone had this problem or has any suggestions on
> the point please help.
> Many thanks in advance.
>
Firstly i can only "point" you to even more documentation, however there is
one program to try which should be on your machine, 'SuperProbe' it will
probe for a video card, "BEFORE" using it i suggest you do;
'man SuperProbe'
In your /usr/doc/* directorys Compaq is mentioned numerous times, in;
Database-HOWTO
Ethernet-HOWTO
Hardware-HOWTO
PCI-HOWTO
PCMCIA-HOWTO
Parallel-Processing-HOWTO
SCSI-HOWTO
XFree86-HOWTO
In thoses files the same URL keeps being mentioned;
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/Drivers/
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/Software-Solutions
Others are;
http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/allfiles.html
There are possably more URL's and README's around on your system, i think
you should be able to see why Compaq is NOT recomended as a linux machine
after reading the above.
Hope this all helps.
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Regards Richard.
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