Alexander Volovics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 Michael Perry wrote:
>
>
> Michael, you have a couple of options:
>
> 1) I you have money to spare or if your company pays for it buy
> the Xi-graphics Laptop Accelerated-X Display Server, version 4.1.
> It has a specially Inspiron 7000 adapted and tested version
> of drivers for the Ati Rage LT Pro 4MB/8MB card. (It was'nt
> included in my box, I had to download them seperately from their
> server: look for L4102.013.tar.gz).
> They are excellent and fast with nice options.
> (as they are still libc5 only do a 'minimal' install).
>
> 2) If you want a free solution go to Steve Hsieh's site:
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
> There you will find info on how to download and install patched
> versions of the XFree Mach 64 server. (libc5 and libc6 versions
> available) or, if you are using the 2.2.1 kernel, a solution using
> a 'VESA Framebuffer'.
>
> NB I read on the German SuSE site info about broken PCMCIA modules
> in SuSE 6.0. (didn't work with some cards, you had to remove the
> 6.0 stuff and put in the stuff from SuSE 5.3 or something like
> that. I don't know if this was only the German version and if it
> has been fixed in the international version).
> I was in a hurry so I didn't install SuSE 6.0, in case of trouble,
> but RedHat 5.2, and I used the Xi-Graphics server.
> Works perfectly, marvelous performance. I have the 333 Mhz one.
> The 15" screen is indeed awesome. Enlightenment is magnificent
> on it.
> ---------
Alexander-
Many, many thanks for this. I grabbed the files and my Inspiron is
truly inspired now. Its so nice to have X working with the system.
This is one heavy duty laptop. The screen is just gorgeous. It has the
heft of a desktop or something :)
Thanks again for the web pointer.
--
Michael Perry
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