Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad
Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that
or will 2.2.18pre from potato work?
dar
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
> [video card specs, etc]
> | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd
> | love to get this laptop working.
>
> Check out the framebuffer support in the kernel. Rebuild your kernel
> to use the framebuffer instead of VGA for console driving. Also, when
> you have the framebuffer support in your kernel, you can tell X to use
> the 'fbdev' driver and it all works with no hassle at all. I really
> like it :-).
>
> -D
>
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