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Re: [blt] SuSE 7.1 Install on Compaq 12XL430
- From: "David C. Johanson" <dcjohan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:29:28 -0400
- Message-id: <3ADE2358.26703331@xxxxxxxxx>
Juan -
Mucho thanks for your advice. I took a look at your references and
did a fair bit more reading and then started playing and finally sought
assistance from our university guru. To refresh your memory, I'm using a
Compaq Presario 12XL430 (not one of the models as identified as working
with Linux) with the Cyberblade i1 chipset and the trident driver. Box
has a P3 600 MHz chip, 128 meg ram, 10gig eide drive, 2 usb ports, and a
24x dvd/cdrom, and JBL sound. The install configured the sound perfectly
and the clock was set correctly but to the wrong time zone. Selecting
the proper time zone has it keeping great time. The install recognized
everything properly save the video which was a mess at 640 x 480 plaid.
Ugh, unusable!!
By setting the framebuffer "on" in lilo using vga=791 as per the
docs, I am now able to get a very nice bright and clear 1024 x 768
display in X. However, and this is the interesting part, I can ONLY do
so by booting into level 3 and then typing "startx"; if I try to boot
directly into level 5 the best I can get is an 800x600 display of a 1024
x 768 screen. Stated differently, what I get is a nice crisp display
with a one inch plus black border all around the panel and a display
that scrolls in all 4 directions, up/down. left/right as though it
wanted to fill the screen but can't.
This could be seen as a good thing as it forces me to start out in
text mode which is actually fine for house keeping, but I am really
curious as to why this is occurring. Any ideas?
Stuck a pcmcia lan card into the slot today for the first time and
it was immediately recognized and it took less then five minutes to get
things configured on-line via the lan. I then tried the same with my
hard drive card but it wasn't recognized. I'm sure that is because I
don't have a line for it in fstab but at this point I'm not sure how to
properly identify it. You might have an input here. My drive is
partitioned {its dual boot so my wife can use it at her elementary
school also} as hda1 for Windows me (FAT32), hda7 for / (ext2), hda6 for
swap (swap), and hda5 for /boot (ext2). I'm assuming that as the lan
card was immediately recognized that the pcmcia socket doesn't need a
line in fstab else the lan card would not have been seen.
Regards,
dave
In any event here is one more laptop we can add to the works great
list.
Mucho thanks for your advice. I took a look at your references and
did a fair bit more reading and then started playing and finally sought
assistance from our university guru. To refresh your memory, I'm using a
Compaq Presario 12XL430 (not one of the models as identified as working
with Linux) with the Cyberblade i1 chipset and the trident driver. Box
has a P3 600 MHz chip, 128 meg ram, 10gig eide drive, 2 usb ports, and a
24x dvd/cdrom, and JBL sound. The install configured the sound perfectly
and the clock was set correctly but to the wrong time zone. Selecting
the proper time zone has it keeping great time. The install recognized
everything properly save the video which was a mess at 640 x 480 plaid.
Ugh, unusable!!
By setting the framebuffer "on" in lilo using vga=791 as per the
docs, I am now able to get a very nice bright and clear 1024 x 768
display in X. However, and this is the interesting part, I can ONLY do
so by booting into level 3 and then typing "startx"; if I try to boot
directly into level 5 the best I can get is an 800x600 display of a 1024
x 768 screen. Stated differently, what I get is a nice crisp display
with a one inch plus black border all around the panel and a display
that scrolls in all 4 directions, up/down. left/right as though it
wanted to fill the screen but can't.
This could be seen as a good thing as it forces me to start out in
text mode which is actually fine for house keeping, but I am really
curious as to why this is occurring. Any ideas?
Stuck a pcmcia lan card into the slot today for the first time and
it was immediately recognized and it took less then five minutes to get
things configured on-line via the lan. I then tried the same with my
hard drive card but it wasn't recognized. I'm sure that is because I
don't have a line for it in fstab but at this point I'm not sure how to
properly identify it. You might have an input here. My drive is
partitioned {its dual boot so my wife can use it at her elementary
school also} as hda1 for Windows me (FAT32), hda7 for / (ext2), hda6 for
swap (swap), and hda5 for /boot (ext2). I'm assuming that as the lan
card was immediately recognized that the pcmcia socket doesn't need a
line in fstab else the lan card would not have been seen.
Regards,
dave
In any event here is one more laptop we can add to the works great
list.
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