> G'Day ! > > About a year ago, I bought a Dell Latitude LX (yes an old 486 monster), so I > could edit source files while away from my desktop. With RCS, Emacs and a > basic command line, eveything worked great. BUT, the project grew and I > needed more capability. Namely X-window and an ethernet connection. > > BTW, I'm running a 2.0.38 kernel with a combination of 2.1 and 2.2 packages > > I bought a D-Link DFE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card and set-it up via the HOW-TOs. > The card manager finds the card and reports it as a NE2000 compatable, but it > does not communicate with the outside world. Dmesg keeps reporting Tx errors. > Any suggestions ? I thought it might be a cable, so I've already tested that. > > The second is when I bought it, it had windows 95 on it with no documention. > My development efforts involve OpenGL (really MESA) and I need some > rudimentry X support. Does anyone know which chipset this laptop uses and > more importantly which X-server to use ?
Well, I suppose you could run SuperProbe (that's a commandline tool that comes with X to probe the video hardware) which is the equivalent of asking the hardware what it thinks it is. > Does anyone have the hardware specs ? I bought it from my company's surplus > sales, so it should be pretty stock. Dunno for sure but an OS/2 page found via Google hints that it may be Neomagic. Something about it being in a 486 makes that not sound right, but if it's so, SuperProbe should spot it. > BTW Just ordered the latest and greatest CD's, so ... > > cheers, > Jim Parker Best of luck * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
