On Wednesday 04 July 2001 05:27 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
| This is an older Thinkpad (760XD), and I'm wondering what opinions
| people have about whether I'm likely to have more or less problems
| with XF86 v4.x or any of the other new stuff (ie 2.4x kernel) that
| come with eW 3.1. If the newer version is likely to be less
| compatible/tested on an older laptop, I may just not open that can
| of worms and stick with what works for now.
this one can be a real can of worms -- imho it was flat stupid for
XF86Setup to have been abandoned, inasmuch as it worked and the new
stuff doesn't always.
the problem with the video in the tp 760 series, best i have been
able to figure out, is some bios issue involving frame buffers. the
answer ought to be simply to forget the frame buffers and go the
normal route -- but i've hit the wall here insofar as that's
concerned, leaving me stuck with xfree-3.3.6 on my 760xl. (which
suffers an additional problem, in that you can't use the floppy and
the cd at the same time, and it won't boot from the cd.)
i plan to dive back into this in a week or two, but for now it's a
little bit of a mess. and unfortunately the XF86Config repository at
the laptops site deals almost entirely with xfree-3.x.
--
dep
there's more to history than what's in books;
that's why it took so long to happen.
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