about to give up on X-Windows / Neomagic NM2090Forum: X and Fluxbox Topic: about to give up on X-Windows / Neomagic NM2090 started by: kslawson Posted by kslawson on Mar. 05 2006,04:46
Hello fellow DSL users...Well, I am new to DSL. I have been using redhat 7 for quite a while, but decided to go with DSL due to unusable (but working) X-Windows on it. The computer im using for DSL is a IBM thinkpad 385ED , a really beautiful dinosaur. While working with the cd-boot dsl , I seemed to be able to get my X to display correctly ( but at a very unreasonable load speed ) . Now I have it installed to the HD, and cant get a working X display. The video adapter is a neomagic NM-2090 . I really love working in the CLI and wouldn't worry about the X Win, but I really need a HTTPS and SSL compatible browser, and cant seem to find a console based version. If anyone has any experience getting this ancient video card running in X, I would love to hear from you. I am considering putting an evil program on the computer , so if anyone has any ideas or anything, please e-mail me at slawdawgATgmail.com , and I will be eternally in your debt. Thanks, Kyle Ive read about the lynx that has the SSL/HTTPS but that you have to compile it yourself. Does anyone know where I can pick up a pre-compiled package? Also, the LILO boot loader give me BIOS error codes at the start of the load.( I switched over to GRUB and it seems to work fine.) LILO with RH didn't seem to give me this problem. any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 05 2006,08:21
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