X, mdk, laptop (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Laptop for Installfest)

[Kurt Sturm]

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 21:47, David Anselmi wrote:
> Kurt Sturm wrote:
> > 
> > Good news.... I installed mandrake on the laptop and the drives do
> > indeed hot swap. Now for the BAD news, I cannot get X to come up in
> > graphical mode. Ugg!! Just turned my laptop into a paper weight. I am
> > looking around linux-laptop.net to see if there is a solution to this.
> 
> Well, you can fix X the Unix way or the Windows way.  The Windows way is
> to install a different distro (repeat as necessary until it works).
> 
> The Unix way is to figure out what's wrong and fix it--X almost
> certainly supports your laptop.
> 
> If you want help, post details of your problem.  I assume that by can't
> get X into graphical mode you're seeing error messages from it.  So log
> in from a virtual console (press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 to get a login
> prompt).  Type 'startx 2>x.err' and post the file containing error
> messages.
> 
> Or if I'm way off base, tell me how.
> 
> Dave

Got it Dave but thanks.It seems with Mandrake that there are two
versions of X. I switched to the newer 4.x.x and it took right off. Now
a proud owner of a Linux laptop. 
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