[ltp] TP A30 graphic card

Torsten Daiber linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:30:16 GMT


Hi Ron,

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/31/02, 6:50:00 PM, Ron Joffe <rjoffe@yahoo.com> wrote regarding Re:=
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[ltp] TP A30 graphic card:


> Torsten,

>   Where can I find the Xfree86 and sax2 upgrades on the suse server (c=
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I
> use YOU?)

> thanks,

> Ron

it is on their ftp server=20
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.2.0-S=
uSE=20
Choose the directory corresponding to your Suse version (IIRC it is 7.3?=
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There you find sax too. I have never used YOU, so no comment on that. Bu=
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of course you can use yast to install the packages.
>From time to time I get a flickering of the screen. Switching to the tex=
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console and back resolves that (at least, on my A30p). Also, before=20
configuring 4.2 I switched back from framebuffer normal vga. I used=20
framebuffer in advance to 4.2 due to the lack of a driver. But of course=
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that limited me to 1280x1023 resolution.

HTH
Torsten

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