Regarding the sound device.... I have had the same issue with old laptops.
I successfully used snd-config with both RedHat and Mandrake to detect isa cards. (You may need to install snd-config) Let me know if you need more detail. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 10 August 2003 9:38 p.m. To: CLUG mailing address Subject: Flickery X on laptop... Hi guys, I installed RH 8.0 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX laptop (Pentium 133/MMX, 48MB RAM). When X attempts to boot I get a problem. The 'Fn' key on this laptop allows me to select internal display, external display, or both, but somehow X triggers the display device to use the 'both' mode, which flickers sometimes. Hitting the 'Fn' key to select 'internal' mode fixes it, but I wonder if this can be fixed from XFree86 configs... Has anyone encountered anything like that installing to an older Toshiba laptop? While I'm on the case PCMCIA info in KDE desktop claims there is no PCMCIA controller installed, despite a modprobe revealing that the 2.4.19 kernel RH 8.0 uses has a loaded PCMCIA module. Also, I get no sound, since all the installers for Debian, Mandrake and now RH cannot seem to find a noise-making device...thats odd since the BIOS setup screen allows me to change IRQ's for sound, and the info in the BIOS tells me its a fairly standard SB16 device with all the MPU401, MIDI, recording, wav support etc... Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
