IBM THINKPAD 600
Forum: Laptops
Topic: IBM THINKPAD 600
started by: larryd
Posted by larryd on April 19 2006,02:07
ok, so i have an IBM Thinkpad 600 pentium 2, 200mhz
128mb RAM
5Gb harddrive
it runs XP but there is nothing left to do anything with, so im hoping for DSL to get working on it
so i tried booting from the cd, it works fine except for one thing
when it gets to the desktop everything loads fine, but the colours are all wrong
this is what i am seeing
help me out please...... im new to Linux
Posted by green on April 19 2006,16:17
You might give this a try: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx >Otherwise, you could use the boot option for xsetup at the boot prompt:
dsl xsetup
It will ask you some questions. You might want to try the xfbdev options.
When you finish answering the question and choosing the options, if it still does not look correct, you can to this:
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
This kills X and leaves you at a command prompt.
Then do this:
xsetup.sh
You can go thru the options again. When done choosing, do this:
startx
That will try to start X again using the options that you have chosen.
You can keep going thru this until you find what works.
Good luck.
Posted by doobit on April 19 2006,16:21
That looks like a color depth issue. Thanks for the screen shot, by-the-way. I wish se had seen that a long time ago when others here were having screen issues with the IBM 600 series laptops. I think some have reported success with dsl vga=788
Posted by larryd on April 19 2006,21:47
ok well i have an update on my situationi have managed to get it to boot from the harddrive FINALY ...... except now im having that diplay issue again....... and after running xsetup.sh a million times and trying EVERY SINGLE display setting possible i have still come out with nothing.......
i had it working fine before putting in on the hard drive.
that boot: prompt does not come up anymore instead i gat a GRUB menu or something......
it has a couple settings there and im able to edit some sort of code line, but im unfamiliar with it so i dont know what to change..... but it has "vga=791" in that line of code i just dont know how to change it
thanks for the help guys
Posted by urwatuis on April 20 2006,03:20
I have exactly the same display issues on my 1400i Think Pad 300MHz PII w/ 192Mb Ram and 20GB HD. I have tried to install on the HD but get hung up and wait and wait and wait. I thought this was supposed to be the quick and easy Linux? I am writing this from my 700MHz Celeron Think Pad using DSL Live CD. Could it be the 1400i dose not have the balls to run DSL? I thought DSL was so light it would run on almost anything?Does anyone have input? Thank you
Posted by green on April 20 2006,04:05
I have had 3 ThinkPad's.1. 600E, 366 Mhz, 128 Mb
2. T21, 800 Mhz, 256 Mb
3. T42, 1.6Ghz, 1Gb
On all three of them, I was able to use the xsetup.sh script to get 1024x768 24bit color. It's been a while, so I do not remember exactly what the settings were, but I know it works. They all had more than enuf power to run DSL. I did not do hard drive installs on them, because DSL is primarily designed to run Live or frugal and 'toram.' They all did GREAT 'toram' while saving configs, settings, etc. on a USB memory stick.
The point is, these machines have more than adequate power to run DSL. There are people running DSL on 100Mhz machines and less. It is amazing.
Unfortunately, I do not have a cut and dried solution, but I know DSL will run just fine on these ThinkPad's. I did a quick search of the forums and just quickly looked at a couple of the search results, they look promising. You might want to take a look:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....6ff0224 >
Good luck.