A bit more info, Re: [ale] Limping laptop, locking X11

[Bob Toxen]

Try Slackware 9.1 or 8.1.  I've always succeeded in getting Slackware
to install well on laptops.  I've installed it on several models of
Toshiba, btw.

Bob

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:40:13PM -0400, John Mills wrote:
> Jeff -
> 
> Thanks for the note.
> 
> On 9 Oct 2003, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > John - is this laptop kind of long in the tooth?
> 
> But definitely!
> 
> > Reason I ask, I've recently been beating my brains out on a Pentium/60
> > with Cirrus Logic onboard video and all X that I tried, save that which
> > came with the quite old SuSE 7.0 Professional, came out quite wrong,
> > with screens that marginally worked but were full of green crosshatching
> > no matter what resolution I picked in my config file.  If this thing is
> > pretty old, it makes me wonder if you should back down to xfree 3,3.*.
> 
> I should be able to do that, running the level that I used in RH-6.*.
> 
> It was working perfectly (but naturally, I had to "fix" it ...)
> 
> Cheers.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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