Don't know about slackware, I installed RH 7.2 (enigma) on an old armada 7710. The install program installs both 3.3.6 and 4.1.0, then noticing that acceleration is only available in 3.3.6 default X to 3.3.6. it is obviously possible to redirect X to point to XFree86 (4.1.0) in that case one must use vesa (i.e. forget the acceleration) Lionel --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Folks, > > I have an old laptop on which I am trying to get X to work. So far, I have > managed to install Slack 8.0 on the system. Coming to the issue of X, it looks > like the chipset on the laptop is not supported by the newer version of Xfree86, > which is 4.1.0. Instead this is supported by Xfree86 3.3.6. The version of X > installed with Slackware 8.0 comes with 4.1.0. > > The laptop configuration is as follows: > > Compaq LTE 5400 > > Pentium 150, 80MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD, Cirrus Logic Adapter GD7543. The system has 1 > MB of Video RAM. I tried to install X 3.3.6 on this system after reading the > documentation given on the site, but while running the first install script, "sh > preinst.sh", there are some messages like ": identifier expected". This message > is repeated three times, then the script checks to see what version of the > linker do I have. > > Any pointers suggesting how do I go about installing 3.3.6 on this laptop would > be greatly helpful. The main aim is to get KDE to run on the system, so the > next step would be to install the version of KDE that comes with Slackware 8.0. > > Thanks in advance, > > Samarth > > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
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