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Hello,

has anybody successfully installed X11 on a  Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600
Notebook running Red Hat 7.2?

I tried several times but always failed.

Michael

hi michael,

if all else fails, use framebuffer (you may need to install XFree86-FBDev
rpm) for X. that's what i did on my notebook, whose video card isn't quite
well supported

regards,
lm

Looks like the frame buffer driver is the way to go:
http://mobilix.org/toshiba_sp4600.html
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  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

I actually got vesa to work better than FrameBuffer on a Toshiba 490Xcdt.
That is a much older laptop with quite differetn video, but the problem was
the same.

The driver for the S3Virge chipset in the laptop never gave me a readable
display no matter how I tried to configure it.
Frame buffer gave me a beautiful 800x600 display on a 1024x768 laptop and
Vesa gave me the full 1024x768

Of course I am having major mouse problems with the Toshiba stick mouse.

Quote:> Hello,

> has anybody successfully installed X11 on a  Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600
> Notebook running Red Hat 7.2?

> I tried several times but always failed.

> Michael

I had the same experience. Until I added vga=791 to the boot line of
the linux kernel (now in my grub config file.)

My current configuration is:
- RedHat 7.2
- Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, P III 800 Mhz, 128 Mb
- XFree 86 4.1.0 (so /etc/X11/X is a link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86)
- a grub.conf file with vga=791 on the kernel line
  (run grub --batch after changing this.)
- The XFree86 file below. Remembered changes from my side:
  - added VideoRam 16384 to the Device section
  - Modes "1024x768" at my Display Subsection
- An external microsoft scroll mouse.

Good luck!

Klamer
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[ XF86Config-4 2K ]
# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
        FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"           # Double-buffering
        Load  "GLcore"                # OpenGL support
        Load  "dri"           # Direct rendering infrastructure
        Load  "glx"           # OpenGL X protocol interface
        Load  "extmod"                # Misc. required extensions
        Load  "v4l"           # Video4Linux
        # Load  "pex5"                # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete)
        # Load  "record"      # X event recorder
        # Load  "xie"         # X Image Extension (obsolete)
        # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
        # Load  "freetype"     # TrueType font handler
        # Load  "type1"               # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbLayout"       "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
        VendorName "Unknown"
        ModelName  "Unknown"
        HorizSync 31.5-48.5
        VertRefresh 40-70
        Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Trident *BladeXP"
        VideoRam 16384
        Driver "trident"
        BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
        Driver "fbdev"
        BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Trident *BladeXP"
        # Device "Linux Frame Buffer"
        Monitor "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
        DefaultDepth 16
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 24
                Modes "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 16
                #Modes "800x600" "1024x768"
                #Virtual 1280 1024
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
                # Virtual 1280 1024
        EndSubSection
        Subsection "Display"
                Depth 8
                Modes "800x600" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection