Somewhat better Re: [ale] Limping laptop

[John Mills]

James, all -

Thanks for the suggestions.

My problem with XFree86-4* on the Toshiba seems to have been the way it
drives the C&T 65550 video chip. XFree86-3.3.* apparently supported this
much better through it's SVGA driver. After trying a few configuration
tools, I reran 'xf86config' and identified the video chip as 'Generic
VESA', which seems to have worked.

I wouldn't say I have a _good_ installation compared with the older 
RH-6.2, as I don't have nor find the suite of RH configuration tools (PPP 
particularly), and overall things seem a little "half baked". If the 
reason to choose RH is convenient management, I have not achieved it. I 
do use and like RH-7.3 on my desktop where I get the advantage of RedHat's 
helpful features; the issues seem to be Toshiba 'kinks' that were handled 
automagically when I dropped in RH-6.2 and helpful components that were 
culled out of the 'Slinky' installation list to save space and/or time.

On that note, how do I go about finding and using the pcmcia modem that 
worked fine before? Any aids to setting up PPP similar to the RH PPP 
configuration tool of 6.2? In that setup, fvwm2 used a utility called 
'wmconfig' to set up that part of its menu, so I don't know whence the 
tools came.

I expect there are 'tk' equivalents to many utility items, and I could go 
that route.

TIA.
 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu