(TI) TravelMate 6160 - successful install

Forum: Laptops
Topic: (TI) TravelMate 6160 - successful install
started by: Duncan R. Bell

Posted by Duncan R. Bell on Mar. 23 2004,13:58

I hope this helps someone else!

I have spent a few hours trying to install DSL on an old laptop (bought 1987) with Pentium 166. It has a problem with its PCMCIA slots, and advanced power management, which are another issue: the main problem was that I couldn't get DSL to display properly.

I tried lots of different combinations of display settings (thanks for all the postings on this subject!).
I ended up displaying DSL with a variety of background colours: green, blue, grey, creamy, often very grainy. The screen texts were illegible.

In the end, this is what worked:

At the boot: prompt, enter

fb800x600 knoppix nopcmcia noapm

and press <Return>. (If you have no problem with your PCMCIA card manager, or advanced power management, you don't need "knoppix nopcmcia" and/or ("knoppix") "noapm").

At the "servers" prompt, select "xfbdev server" (not the default!)

and press <Return>.

Select the USB mouse and other options to suit your system!

It's lovely when it works

Duncan

Posted by bostonrue on Mar. 24 2004,06:26

i dont mean to burst ur bubble but u state 1987 and pentium 166, um ok sure thosee where out then, 1987 was about the time of lets see 386's? i belive dont quote me. but i know 166's came out at least after 1992 "which my 133 is marked" so if anyone else has there say please add to this

Posted by bostonrue on Mar. 24 2004,06:29

o also im glad u got it up and running i dont wana sound rude but i pay atention to stupid little things

Posted by Duncan R. Bell on Mar. 25 2004,22:24

Quote (bostonrue @ Mar. 24 2004,01:26)

[QUOTE]
i dont mean to burst ur bubble but u state 1987 and pentium 166, um ok sure thosee where out then, 1987 was about the time of lets see 386's? i belive dont quote me. but i know 166's came out at least after 1992 "which my 133 is marked" so if anyone else has there say please add to this.

You're right: I meant 1997! 1987 I was using my first clustered IBM PC, with MS Word 4.0 for DOS on it, and a terminal on the faculty Wang mainframe

Duncan