[ltp] TP 760XL Video Questions

Martin West linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
22 Jan 2002 22:39:10 +0000


I have successfully used Xconfigurator, but XFree86 fell over.
I have RH7.2, XF86 4.1.0 and iSeries 1161-43G.
regards Martin
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 20:09, Martin Sanborn wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> > X installs easily with Xconfigurator, but using XF86 3.3.6. I haven't got
> > it to work with XF86 4.x, and I don't know that anyone else has either. 
> > XF86 4.2 supposedly has another Trident patch, so it just *might* work.
> 
> FYI, in XF86 4.x, you can use the command,
> 
> XFree86 -configure 
> 
> can give you a quick configuration file to start from. It will probe for 
> known video cards and modes. It might give you a place to start. I'm not sure 
> if it's very important to have a value for the video card memory. Also see 
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status33.html#33 for Trident support 
> information. 
> 
> Marty Sanborn
> 
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