ahaaa.........there is a madness to the method.....I wonder if anyone has cashed in on this........?

The only one I know of was in an early Linux Format mag. Since we're always beaten over the head with the EULA, it's kind of poetic isn't it?

poetic justice is sweet

and not fattening!

Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite under Redhat 9, but I have some problem whit it.
I can't go up to 800*600 for screen resolution.
Could somebody help me?

Thx oni0013



pS: Sorry for my bad English, I'm more use to read than write.

Have a look in xf86config - there should be a line with your resolutions in: "800x600" "640x480". Add "1024x768" followed by a space before the existing resolutions - it should now read "1024x768" "800x600" "650x480".

Restart X and your new resolution will be there.

I installed Successfully Redhat 9 on my Dell Inspiron 5100. The only thing that didnt work initially was the NIC. I got those drivers installed. Good luck to you all with your laptop installs.

Hello,

As XavierP said, I added "1024x768" in XF86Config. But when I restarted the Xserver, it disappeared.
Maybe it's because my monitor is a unprobed monitor (I don't know what kind of Toshiba screen it is on this A10) and he doesn't know the dpi.

Help?


Thx

I have the identical model and it worked for me. Did you edit the file as root?

I'm using RH9 on a Fujitsu Lifebook S6120 everyday at work - without any hassle.

Apart from the gfx chip not being supported yet (no 3D), the only other thing I haven't been able to get working is suspending - but I think I'm going to have to wait for 2.6 kernel for that arn't I?

dvd is working as /dev/scd0 and i m using xine to play dvd's and what not (everything else that xine can play)
red hat 9 on my toshiba satellite 3005-S305
if u want to use the xp partition (ntfs) there is a read only driver at : http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html
my firewire drive works as /dev/sda1 and to be able to read from a user account login as root and edit the /etc/fstab adding this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0222,uid=username,gid=username 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/fwire ntfs ro,noauto,umask=0222,uid=username,gid=username 0 0
please change username with your actual username or u will hava to create an account called username to access the drives
note that the firewire is noauto and don't forget to mkdir nt and firewire at /mnt
u can name them whatever u like just make sure to make the apropriate changes in fstab and the /mnt dir.
what is being a royal pain to me is the apm and acpi
to suspend the lapbox to disk one will need to create a partition with some special tool
i need to dig more on this one.

the easy way to install software even on red hat 9 is using apt with the synaptic front end for X.
go to http://freshrpms.net/ and click on the apt link download the rpm's and install apt
download synaptic and install it too.
to use the tool open xterm or whatever shell u r using (login as root ) type synaptic
if u like u can just use apt-get (RTFM please)

I'm running RH9 on a Dell C400. I had to set the video manaully as it came up in 800x600. I haven't tried the modem to see if it works yet. I added the wireless myself after searching for a prism2 based card. Every 4-5 times X hangs when resuming, I can switch virtual consoles and see error masseges from the i830 driver and sometimes I can get it to bring X back up to a login prompt, other time I have to power off and reboot. My external cd-rom works if I plug it in before a boot up as RH doesn't seem to support ide hotplugging. USB works fine althought sometimes hangs at the usb-ochi module at boot time. I haven't gotten the synaptics touchpad driver working quite right yet, it installs but disables tapping by default and the config program errored out so I had uninstall the driver and reboot into XP and use the stipud point stick to re-enable the tapping on the touchpad.

is the dell c400 a lapbox?
try to change the driver (mouse) to the ps/2 with the emulate 3 button option or the alps driver
do u have Xconfigurator installed? (if a laptop)try the generic laptop lcd panel 1024x768 and for the display driver pick the frame buffer device it work's fine with most graphic cards
did u have a look at the hotplug config file ?
i have a sipix blinkII camera and i had to edit the file and copy the lines from the hotplug output in there so no i can use it with libgphoto2 and gtkam.
when in X open a term window login as root and type (cd / just to make sure)
and then: tail -f /var/log/messages now u can see what is going on behind the X
plug the cdrom and watch...
hope this helps a litle bit

Lapbox? Is that another name for laptop? I'm using the PS/2 driver, the touchpad is synaptics so the alps driver won't work. The touchpad does work, I just can't configure it or use the advanced features like the scroll wheel emulation.