Michael Soulier wrote: > > So I'm installing Linux on my first laptop, an IBM thinkpad, P-III > 500 from work (they had '98 on it *shudder*). Installed fine, but I have > no idea how to configure X. > What monitor do I chose for these LCD things? There are three LCD > screens listed, but none of them seem to work. I guess I can check the IBM > homepage and try to find the specs there...
i installed debian on several dell latitude notebooks, seemed the monitor setting didn't do anything, it could of be set to anything and it still worked. the chipset was neomagic. i figured that the driver automatically handled the screen. what kind of chip in the ibm ? > Anything interesting that I could know about PCMCIA devices? I've > never dealt with them before. not sure about debian, but in slackware i had to recompile pcmcia support to enable APM. otherwise bad things happened when suspending. the dells i used came with xircom combo 10/100 and modems, i believe all the linux distros i tested(mandrake, debian, slackware) autodetected both the NIC and the modem. the only issue i had was with dhcp. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
