[ale] Laptop blues

[hne at inetnow.net (Keith Hopkins)]

Automated setup tools? We have automated setup tools now? I better get busy 
upgrading my Slackware beyond 2.2! :-)

Jim Philips wrote:

> You need to dig up all of the specs on your video card and input 
> everything manually--clock speeds, vertical & horizontal refresh rates, 
> etc.--as you configure X. I would refrain from trying to start X with 
> your current setting. If the settings are wrong and you are pushing your 
> monitor too hard, you can fry it. Congratulations! You will be 
> configuring X-Windows the way everybody used to do it back in the days 
> before automated setup tools were available.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergio Chaves [mailto:sergio_chavess at hotmail..com]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Laptop blues
> 
> 
> Hi Everybody.
> 
> I recently purchased a Dell C800 and installed both Mandrake 8.0 and Red 
> Hat
> 7.1 obtaining the same results;
> After booting and configuring X, the computer crashes (freezes) and the
> screen starts fading away as if it was "frying" the video card.
> Setup is not recognizing the card, putting it under the "other" options and
> does not give me any more video card options to choose from (both RH and
> MKE).
> Any sugestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sergio
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