RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-26 Thread D'jinnie
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Anatol Quabach wrote: :OK, up and running. 800x600 works, 640x480 is completely messed up :(tiled screen). I simply removed that resolution from the XF86Config :file. : :Unfortunately, X uses the "vga16" driver, not "svga" or "accel". :Therefore I get a color depth of 4bit, th

RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-26 Thread Anatol Quabach
OK, up and running. 800x600 works, 640x480 is completely messed up (tiled screen). I simply removed that resolution from the XF86Config file. Unfortunately, X uses the "vga16" driver, not "svga" or "accel". Therefore I get a color depth of 4bit, though the card could handle 16 or 24bit at 800x600.

RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-25 Thread Bill Moshier
Anatol If you look under www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html for your laptop, you will probably find the information you need. I was able through that to find the Neomagic driver needed to run linux on a Compaq 1620 laptop. Bill Moshier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Anatol Qu