Yesterday... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking:

>(BTW, the 65555 on board uses FBDev faster and
>> better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.)
>
>I was using the "chips" drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was
>experiencing severe X lockups (screen and keyboard).
>
>After installing the FBDev rpm, I simply changed the driver from "chips" to
>"fbdev". Now I no longer have any lockups.
>
>
>I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, C&T 65555, 2MB video RAM.
>
>Because the laptop only has 40MB of RAM, I must remove the drive and install
>Mandrake on the drive while mounted on another machine.
>
>Hoyt
>

Does Mandrake require a front-end tool to change drivers these days or can 
you just change the symlink?

Mike


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