Re: Linux on 760

[Andrew Veliath <veliaa@rpi.edu>]

>>>>>  R2D2, with all his skill, exclaimed:
>>>>> "All kneel at the words of the wonderful Steve Hultquist!"

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Stewart <bstewart@sun2.bnl.gov> writes:
    Bruce> I also have an extra hard drive for the purpose of running
    Bruce> Linux, but although I know Unix fairly well I am having a
    Bruce> heap of trouble configuring XFree86. The X that came with
    Bruce> my Debian distribution didn't know about the Trident TGUI
    Bruce> 9660 video card, so I got XFree86 3.1.2G beta. Now xinit
    Bruce> works, but it thinks I have only 640x480, and I can't get
    Bruce> it to recognize the mouse.

    Steve> The mouse is a PS/2.  You need to tweak your
    Steve> /etc/XF86Config file to have the 800x600 version be the
    Steve> preferred (and define your "monitor" as 800x600, too).

I run XFree86 3.1.2G on a 760L with RedHat 4.0 (installed over NFS
using an 3Com PCMCIA NIC) and love it.  My screen is only 10.4" but I
don't mind.  

All I can say is I wish I had a Linux utility to configure the
"features;" as I have a minimum FAT partition for this purpose.

Regards,
Andrew

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