i just put redhat 9 on my thinkpad 600 and the only things that don't work are the sound and the display.

the display is set at 800X600 and i'm to new at linux to figure out how to change it to the right display setting.

can anyone throw me a bone?

hi mccord, welcome to lq. that said have a look at this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=16

follow it step by step and you should be fine, to find out what video card you have and possibly sound card issue this from a terminal

/sbin/lspci -v

post the results here, we'll try to help you sort it. you'll need to know what card you have before running the config so you know what driver to choose.
good luck.

this is the read out i got

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <unassigned> (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 02)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0092
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 20301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=03, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10000000-103ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10400000-107ff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 (rev 02)
Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0092
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 20300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10800000-10bff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10c00000-10fff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Neomagic Corporation MagicGraph 128XD
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at 20200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]

00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80
[Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 48
I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16]

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 48, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 8400 [size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Memory at 10400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

so i got my video card to work right.
it was easier than i thought.
thanks guys.

up next sound card.

i didn't see a sound card on the pci bus, so lets have a

pnpdump

to see if it shows up on an isa bus.
good luck.

I have a TP600 with sound working in Slackware10.

Open a terminal, su to root, and type the following:

let me know if this works and I'll post my modules.conf. for you.

HTH