Re: X4 troubles on Vaio PCG-XG28 (NM2380)

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 10:36 AM 11/9/00, Noah Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Yesterday I decided to give the upgrade to X4 a try on my Vaio running woody. dexter caused me much grief, creating an X config that would hang the console with a completely blank screen. FWIW.

Re: X4 troubles on Vaio PCG-XG28 (NM2380)

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 10:36 AM 11/9/00, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi all. Yesterday I decided to give the upgrade to X4 a try on my Vaio >running woody. dexter caused me much grief, creating an X config that >would hang the console with a completely blank screen. FWI

X4 on Neomagic NM2160

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
Has anyone had any success getting X4 to run on a Neomagic NM2160 chipset? ( Dell Latatude CPi ) I've run into several problems, but so far can only get an ugly 800x600 mode to run. 1024x768 hangs with a black screen. No Magic SysReq key, so I end up having to telnet in, so I can reboot clea

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:47 AM 11/7/00, Anton Gyllenberg wrote: I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, but the new X is noticeably slower than the o

Re: X4 is slow on Neomagic (NM2200)

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:47 AM 11/7/00, Anton Gyllenberg wrote: >I use woody and upgraded to X4. The upgrade was painless and the >X4 configuration tool 'dexter' worked nicely. I chose the 'neomagic' >driver and a resolution of 1024x768. Everything seems to work correctly, >but the new X is noticeably slower than th

X4 on Neomagic NM2160

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
Has anyone had any success getting X4 to run on a Neomagic NM2160 chipset? ( Dell Latatude CPi ) I've run into several problems, but so far can only get an ugly 800x600 mode to run. 1024x768 hangs with a black screen. No Magic SysReq key, so I end up having to telnet in, so I can reboot clea

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-05 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:04 AM 11/05/1999, Andrew Clark wrote: I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? Regards, Andrew Clark. I've been very happy with my Dell Latitude. I avoided the Inspirion line, though - mainly bec

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-05 Thread Michael Pfeuffer
At 11:04 AM 11/05/1999, Andrew Clark wrote: I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have any recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? Regards, Andrew Clark. I've been very happy with my Dell Latitude. I avoided the Inspirion line, though - mainl