I have a Pressario 2701 which is the same thing I guess....He will need to upgrade to the latest x server in order to get the ati radeon M6 chipset recognised.With Suse 7.3 i was able to use the laptop with x configuring the graphics card to use the framebuffer (listed as fbdev ) using the 7.3- supplied xserver. You could download the latest xfreeserver for 7.3 at suse's ftp site but I do not know if it will work with suse 7.2 .(package xfreetools should not be installed). Suse 8.0 will work on his laptop without any problem and will recognize alla generic devices on his laptop (graphics card, dvd,cd-rw,ethernet card etc) apart from the winmodem ( a driver is due from connexant this month?) Feel free to contact me if I can be of more help Regards, Josef On Thursday 25 April 2002 21:24, W.D.McKinney wrote:
Don't know what the chipset is as this sounds like a new laptop. Try sending him to http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/xfree86.html Might be some help there :-)
/Dee
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-----Original Message----- From: rnc-suse [mailto:rnc-suse@copelan.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:19 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Compaq Presario 2700
I have a friend in the US who has installed SuSE 7.2 and WinXP on a Presario 2700 laptop. He was able to get the dual boot to work without a problem. However X will not configure. When he gets to the Monitor config he selected LCD (and also tried a few others), result was a blank test screen then a message saying "do not use X".
Has anyone been able to config X on this system? Any pointers on video/monitor drivers are appreciated.
Thanks for any help, Robert Friedrichshafen, Germany Home of the Zeppelin NT (NOT affiliated with Microsoft)