Re: M-TECH boot

2000-04-10 Thread Bill Caskey
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Nick Willson wrote: > Looking for help persuading my laptop to boot into Debian. I want to make it > dual-boot, via LILO, into Linux or Win98. > What do you have in your /etc/lilo.conf? I think the answers you chose will write only a stanza for Linux. You'll need to edit by

Re: M-TECH boot

2000-04-10 Thread Greg Woods
Nick Willson wrote: > > Looking for help persuading my laptop to boot into Debian. I want to make it > dual-boot, via LILO, into Linux or Win98. > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 from the Official Intel Binary Disk CD set. > I've done this before without problems, using the exact same CDs, on

RE: External monitor in X

2000-04-10 Thread Mesman, Ben
I'm not sure where I found the info, but there are two options for my NeoMagic chip: intern_disp and extern_disp. I just uncomment one or the other, depending on my configuration. Good luck. Ben. > -Original Message- > From: Kari Ruohonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 07 April

Re: External monitor in X

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I had a 3200 Inspiron which used the Neomaigc server (from non-free), the XF86Config file of which had two directives, 'Internal' and 'External'. The 'External' directive was commented out and X would not run on an external monitor (or in this case projector). I simply uncommented the dire

R: M-TECH boot

2000-04-10 Thread Armando Semplice
Dear Nick, Bill's suggestion should work. For fine-tuning and more informations: there's a wonderful HOWTO on the subject, specifically on booting Linux and Win. (It's either a MINI-HOWTO or a non-maintained one, but it worked fine when I built my dual boot with Win95). There are lots of exampl