For what it's worth, I had a lot of trouble with my ThinkPad 365X and never
did get it to work reliably with XFree86 4.x & Red Hat 7.1 (I admit I
didn't fuss with it too long) but 3.3.x and Suse 7.3 works okay. But
there's a quirk with this machine which causes a blank screen with 2 orange
lines when X starts. The solution is to do an Fn-F7, and it works okay
until the next reboot. A big difference between 3.3.x and 4.x seems to be
that 3.3.x uses the SVGA driver for Trident support whereas 4.x has a
dedicated driver.
Oh, and don't forget that if you're using XFree86 4.x, your config file is
probably XF86Config-4.
The ONE TIME I got 4.x to work was after an install of the latest Peanut
Linux: I was fussing with plugging and unplugging an external monitor when
*bing*-there it was on my ThinkPad LCD, latest KDE and all. I woudn't begin
to know how to repeat this lucky break! But it was so painfully slow on my
133 MHz machine that it was a moot point, and I decided that a leaner
environment than Gnome or KDE was called for. WindowMaker works pretty
well, and so does Sawfish, running directly atop X (it's pretty minimal,
but I kind of like it)
I haven't done too much with the ThinkPad since that time: I'm still
wanting to pare the OS down further for better performance, probably more
than the Red Hat and SuSe installers will allow. Despite being small,
Peanut didn't seem to be the answer either--it seems to assume a faster
processor than I have--but Debian should be interesting, as it makes kernel
customization (relatively) easy. My experiences in moving to Debian after
years of Red Hat and Suse is a whole 'nother story in itself, but I no
longer feel like tearing my hair out, so I've made progress ;-)
Jeff
> I've got an IBM 760xl laptop and cannot configure the correct settings for
> the X server with Redhat 7.3.
> I've tried these links but still don't work:
> http://home.planet.nl/~hkreb/tp760XL/Linux760XL.htm
> http://www.geocities.com/digitallyblunted/Linuxlaptop.html
> I constantly get an out of sync display. The Redhat distro auto detects
> the trident 9660 driver and
> I've chosen the generic 800x600 laptop display and the IBM 9514-B display
> but still gives me
> the same problems...
> I've even changed it to the Trident 9385 driver...still the same
> problems..
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
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