Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
Yesterday... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking: (BTW, the 6 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, CT 6, 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 -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
- Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups 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. Does Mandrake require a front-end tool to change drivers these days or can you just change the symlink? The symlink for /etc/X11/X still points to XFree86. I modified the contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
2:39pm... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking: The symlink for /etc/X11/X still points to XFree86. I modified the contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Hoyt Ahh... thanks! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:34:57 -0500 Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW, the 6 on board uses FBDev faster and better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.) Ditto for the 65550. I was using the chips drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was experiencing severe X lockups (screen and keyboard). On my Toshiba Tecra500CDT, the *entire* system locked up every time... not even a response to ARP packets. After installing the FBDev rpm, I simply changed the driver from chips tofbdev. Now I no longer have any lockups. This is an install issue IMHO... on 8.1, this was selectable at install time... on 8.2, even though I specified unknown/fbdev, it still installed chips -- thanks for your email -- I was assUming that was not the problem... Another issue: LM8.1 LM8.2 XFree 3.xworks fails XFree 4.xlocks-up(chips)works (fbdev) which caused me to focus on trying to get XFree 3.x working thinking there was no hope for 4.x... Would've eventually found this; but you saved my time -- thanks! I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 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. This one is strange... Mine is a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, CT65550, 2MB video, *32MB* RAM, 6.4GB HD and LM8.2 installed *first time* in graphical mode... of course, this machine does not support CD boot, so I have to create a cdrom.img floppy; but it worked. Hoyt Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
- Original Message - From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 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. This one is strange... Mine is a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, CT65550, 2MB video, *32MB* RAM, 6.4GB HD and LM8.2 installed *first time* in graphical mode... of course, this machine does not support CD boot, so I have to create a cdrom.img floppy; but it worked. Hmmm. My attempts at install (using cdrom.img on a floppy) would result in an exit from the installer at the beginning of the second stage. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
10:30pm... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking: I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 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. This one is strange... Mine is a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, CT65550, 2MB video, *32MB* RAM, 6.4GB HD and LM8.2 installed *first time* in graphical mode... of course, this machine does not support CD boot, so I have to create a cdrom.img floppy; but it worked. Hmmm. My attempts at install (using cdrom.img on a floppy) would result in an exit from the installer at the beginning of the second stage. Hoyt Hmmm... again; on my 315CDT with 2GB drive and 32MB ram, I first installed mdk8.1 and it took FOREVER but then I just did the 'upgrade' to 8.2 and everything went fine. Yes, I did boot from the cdrom (did you check your boot order in the bios?) and the only thing I had to configure 'post install' was the sound card. Everything so far has been great, except for some reason pcmcia services won't start at boot no matter how many times I tell it to and I could definitly use more ram and a bigger hdd. Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups I'm using a Toshibs Satellite Pro 420CDS, CT 6, 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. This one is strange... Mine is a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, CT65550, 2MB video, *32MB* RAM, 6.4GB HD and LM8.2 installed *first time* in graphical mode... of course, this machine does not support CD boot, so I have to create a cdrom.img floppy; but it worked. Hmmm. My attempts at install (using cdrom.img on a floppy) would result in an exit from the installer at the beginning of the second stage. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The 420 and 430 just don't work; the second stage exits and has pretty consistently since 8.0. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups
(BTW, the 6 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, CT 6, 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
