On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:07, Paul Cooke wrote:
what I would like to see is a default Laptop biased kernel also available on the original distribution disks
Amen to that, brother. At the very least, I'd wish for a selectable X configuration for laptop. At the office, I run an older DELL laptop with dual-boot (NT 4 and SuSE 8.0). I switch back and forth a lot, because much of my work still needs Windows. In Windows, the system displays LCD resolution and refresh rate on the LCD, but it does up to 1600 x1200 at 70Hz (approx) on the external monitor. When I switch to Linux, I can't get it to display anything but 1024x768 at 60Hz. I'm in North America, so that is exactly the flicker-rate for the overhead fluorescent lights. (Equivalent to you Europeans and others viewing a monitor at 50Hz refresh rate. Yes, you would soon have headaches.) I've tried inputting new mode-lines, but the system ignores them. I'd pay double if SuSE would give me a working setup on my laptop. I'd probably save the price difference within a few months, in the cost of headache pills. What rots me, as much as anything else, is that at least *some* laptop users have a setup that works -- either YaST figured it out properly when they installed, or THEY figured it out when they had to modify their X setup. But ya never hear from them. [...]
But, I also discovered this list, which has made all the difference. That was from an Alta Vista search (remember them?).
the links to the lists are on SuSE's website... perhaps you didn't look deep enough... it's on the support index... of all places :)
Yeah, well, we are talking 1997 or so... things didn't look quite the same, then. :-) /kevin