[plug] Linux on a notebook..

[Phillip Steege]

If you go to this URL, you will find guidance on installing linux on just
about any laptop you may own.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

Regards,
Phil Steege

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bsdave [mailto:bsdave at linuxstart.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 27 May 2000 18:37
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Linux on a notebook..
>
>
> Hey pluggers,
>
> Recently I traded my old SparcStation 2 w/ Alpha (Josh Pierre)
> for an IBM Thinkpad 755C, I installed Slackware 7 on it this
> afternoon via floppy, and then used Dad's PCMCIA ethernet card to
> copy the other packages I needed over, It worked like a dream
> until I tried to get X11 working.
>
> I did an 'XF86Setup' and made a /etc/XF86Config file, and it
> worked great when XF86Setup started the server and saved the
> file, but when I do a 'startx' I get "Fatal Server Error: No
> valid modes found." -- Any idea's?
>
> -Dave Sims
>
> Regards
> ---------------------------
> Dave: bsdave at linuxstart.com
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