[plug] HP notebook and Linux. HELP!!!

Rick (VK6EP) rickd at iinet.net.au
Thu Nov 4 17:39:01 WST 1999


HOORAY!!!!

I got it working. I ran a thing called SAX, with comes with SuSE, and it
did all the work for me. Very clever these Germans.

Anyway, to all thos who offered help, thanks so much. The support was more
then helpful.

At 08:44 04/11/99 +0800, you wrote:
>Suse 6.2 comes with XFree86 3.3.4
>
>If you run yast, select system administration-> Configure XFree86->
>XF86Setup
>
>
>Sean Macleod wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Rick,
>> 
>> after a brief check on http://www.xfree86.org
>> 
>> you need to get hold of at least XFree86-3.3.4 (or the latest 3.3.5)
>> 
>> you can ftp this from
>> 
>> ftp://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/pub/XFree86
>> 
>> if you need any more help please contact me via email
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> "Rick (VK6EP)" wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi, I've installed Linux on a HP Omnibook 2000ct. Windows tells me it
has a
>> > Chips and Technologies 65554 PCI graphics card. I can see no support
for it.
>> >
>> > The distro I am loading is SuSE 6.2 which is fairly up to date, the
machine
>> > is about 2 years or so old, so I imagine that it should have the support.
>> >
>> > Where should I be looking to find it?
>> >
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Rick
>> >
>> > E=Mail    - rickd at iinet.net.au
>> > Home Page - http://opera.iinet.net.au/~rickd/index.html
>> 
>>
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Cheers
Rick

E=Mail    - rickd at iinet.net.au
Home Page - http://opera.iinet.net.au/~rickd/index.html



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