Sony F340 sucess!

1999-10-17 Thread Brian Servis
Things are going good! I used joeyh's stable-updates tecra boot disks which I needed for my Xircom Realport pcmcia network card. Once I got base installed I set up apt and went through dselect and made my selections. Exited and and used 'apt-get -d dselect-upgrade' and went to sleep since I am

Sony F340 sucess!

1999-10-17 Thread Brian Servis
Things are going good! I used joeyh's stable-updates tecra boot disks which I needed for my Xircom Realport pcmcia network card. Once I got base installed I set up apt and went through dselect and made my selections. Exited and and used 'apt-get -d dselect-upgrade' and went to sleep since I am

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-17 Thread Charlie Hedlin
I have a system with a Neomagic MagicGraph NM2160 video chip and a 1024x768 screen, and get a very nice text console without any framebuffer support, so that probally won't be nessesary. As for X, the SVGA server has incorportated all the Suse enhancements, and I get great support with 3.3.3.1, wh

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-17 Thread Charlie Hedlin
I have a system with a Neomagic MagicGraph NM2160 video chip and a 1024x768 screen, and get a very nice text console without any framebuffer support, so that probally won't be nessesary. As for X, the SVGA server has incorportated all the Suse enhancements, and I get great support with 3.3.3.1, wh

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-17 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me again, > > I dropped the Toshiba and went with a Sony Vaio F340. > > PII-366 > 96M ram > 6.4G hdd > 13" 1024x768 w/ Neomagic 256AV > Neomagic2200 sound chip(supported by patch to 2.2.x kernels) > internal winmodem(I don't really need it anyway) >

Re: Sony Viao F340 was(Re: Tochiba Satellite 2590CDT and Linux)

1999-10-17 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me again, > > I dropped the Toshiba and went with a Sony Vaio F340. > > PII-366 > 96M ram > 6.4G hdd > 13" 1024x768 w/ Neomagic 256AV > Neomagic2200 sound chip(supported by patch to 2.2.x kernels) > internal winmodem(I don't really need it anyway) >