[ltp] Problem with Redhat 6.1 Installation on IBM Thinpad 765L

[billy ball]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, m_zawada wrote:

> Hi,

hello there!

> Problem with Redhat 6.1 Installation on IBM Thinpad 765L 
> ( Pentium MMX 166 90mb Ram 5GB hdd ).
> 

[snip details]

go to http://www.multimania.com/norguet/thinkpad.html

looks like a Debian user... had to boot with a TECRA boot disk without the
floppy=thinkpad option... X apparently works at 16bpp at 1024x768:


Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "My Monitor"
  VendorName "Unknown"
  ModelName "Unknown"
  HorizSync 30-64
  VertRefresh 50-70
  Modeline "1024x768"  75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
EndSection 

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Trident Cyber 9385 (generic)"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    BoardName "Unknown"
    VideoRam 2048
    Option "cyber_shadow" 
EndSection 

Section "Screen"
    Driver "svga"
    Device "Trident Cyber 9385 (generic)"
    Monitor "My Monitor"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1024x768"
        ViewPort 0 0
    EndSubsection 
EndSection

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