On 4 Jul 2001, at 8:09, dep boldly uttered:
> 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.
Ah, I've got a "partner in crime" on the list.. cool. We can suffer
together now, hehe..
As for XF86Setup, my impression was there was 3 config utils, and
some of them differed only in capitalization..? (now that was smart)
> 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.
Yep well I had tried some of the config files provided at the e-oasis
site but they didn't work for me out of the box. I can't remember
right now what I had to change to make it work.
Here are some of the sites I have bookmarked:
http://www.adamcon.org/~dmwick/thinkpad/
http://www.e-oasis.com/linux-tp.html
http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~jhind/tplinux/ (was gone on 5/2)
Phil
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Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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