[ltp] Thinkpad 760XL, Red Hat 8.0, and XFree86

[Andrey Yurovsky]

I know there's now a cute graphical Xconfigurator-like program included
in "settings" simply called "Display" -- the command is
/usr/bin/redhat-config-xfree86

However if you can't get X up it's no good.  I think they simply took
Xconfigurator out and didn't replace it in the console with anything at
all.

	-Andrey

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 19:25, Mike Barnard wrote:
> 	Hi. I've got this crappy old Thinkpad 760XL that I've been running linux on 
> for quite some time now, but I can't get X working to save my life. Actually, 
> it used to work under Red Hat 7.2. I upgraded to 7.3 and while it worked fine 
> for the graphical install, it became a jumbled mess when I tried to run it 
> after the 7.3 install. I moved to 8.0, hoping to make things better, but it 
> made them worse - now I get nothing at all. The X server starts successfully 
> but NOTHING is displayed - it's just a black screen. I can kill the server 
> with control-alt-backspace and it shuts down normally, but I never get to see 
> anything on my display. Furthermore, when I did the 8.0 install, even the X 
> server that starts for the graphical install didn't work. It worked fine for 
> 7.2 and 7.3. If anyone has a working XF86Config for a Thinkpad 760XL (or any 
> other Thinkpad with the Trident Cyber 9385 chipset) I'd REALLY appreciate it.
> 
> Oh, and as an aside, does anyone know what Red Hat has replaced the old, 
> reliable Xconfigurator program with? I have nothing to easily configure my X 
> server with in text mode now. Tweaking XF86Config by hand is not my forte.
> 
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