Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>July 7, 2002 11:50 am, Tania Morell wrote:
>> I'm trying to get x running on my new laptop. It's a Toshiba satellite
>> s501 which has a gforce 440 go video chip and a 15.0" high resolution
>> SXGA+ TFT screen..
>>
>> If anybody has anything even remotely resembling this, I'd LOVE to see
>> your xf86config-4 config file. I'm running out of ideas here =(
>> even if the screen is the same but the video different, that would help
>> tons too.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -T
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>Never done it personally Tania but will this help?
>
>http://www.slonet.org/~araul/linux/toshiba.htm
>
>I see lots of 'help' for other models using the Intel chipset but the only
>things that a Google search turned up for the NVidia chipset was in French
>and it was for someone using Mandrake 8.1. That shouldn't matter much but do
>you read and understand French?
>
>Good luck.
>--
>Charlie
>Edmonton,AB,Canada
>Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org
>A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
> -- Whitney Balliett
>
>
Tania:
NVidia makes some propietary drivers for their chips, and provide
free downloads of them for Linux. Most users will say that they provide the most
robust video performance for their chips. The drivers are common
to all their devices. They are somewhat tricky for a newbie to set up; the most
reliable way I found was utilizing scapegoat's tutorial:
http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiarpm.php
nick
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