A bit more info, Re: [ale] Limping laptop, locking X11

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

Jeff -

Thanks for the note.

On 9 Oct 2003, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> John - is this laptop kind of long in the tooth?

But definitely!

> Reason I ask, I've recently been beating my brains out on a Pentium/60
> with Cirrus Logic onboard video and all X that I tried, save that which
> came with the quite old SuSE 7.0 Professional, came out quite wrong,
> with screens that marginally worked but were full of green crosshatching
> no matter what resolution I picked in my config file.  If this thing is
> pretty old, it makes me wonder if you should back down to xfree 3,3.*.

I should be able to do that, running the level that I used in RH-6.*.

It was working perfectly (but naturally, I had to "fix" it ...)

Cheers.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu