[PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Cosmic
Hello, I am a n00b (I never worked with Linux before, though I am familiar with AIX, HP-UX etc), so please bear with me. I installed slackware 11 (came with some linux magazine) on my Shhh office ;-) laptop Dell D620, with kernel 2.4.33, it worked fine except the display, wifi and the scroll of

Re: [PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Nishit Dave
Is there anyother distro that I could try? Since this is my work laptop I would need to connect to Cisco VPN too, has any one have experience with that?I thinking - I *should* try (without keeping getting my finger burnt) is Fedora, also few of my servers are going to have red-hat soon. Save

Re: [PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
One of the things that I found was my xorg.conf is using Vesa and not i810 which I believe supports higher resolution, but I dont know how to install, that driver :(. I have added `915resolution 3c 1280 800` to my rc.local file too. Make sure that your xorg.conf file has the above mode for the

Re: [PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
I installed slackware 11 (came with some linux magazine) on my Shhh office ;-) laptop Dell D620, with kernel 2.4.33, it worked fine except the display, wifi and the scroll of my mouse. Assuming that the Dell D620 comes with the Dell 1390 wireless adapter, for the wifi, you can adapt the

[PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-18 Thread Ranjit Bhonsle
Hello to all, In recent times I don't see any talk about distros. Nobody posts any install experiences. Let it be. I have been unable to install Ubuntu edgy for some time. The problem arises due to PCI graphics being not properly configured in Ubuntu. Dapper had same problem but it used to