Xsetup on old IBM Thinkpad

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Xsetup on old IBM Thinkpad
started by: gjam

Posted by gjam on Mar. 17 2005,00:59

Hi all,

I am completely new to linux and have been trying to save my old IBM thinkpad 380XD. Have completed the hd installation of dsl but somehow cannot get the X session to work correctly. Have tried all the options in the xsetup.sh but it still starts X with a quite unreadable monochromatic screen with vertical lines. The desktop is there but can hardly make out the items. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanx
george

Specs: P 233MMX 32MB Ram SVGA NeoMagic NM2160CR 128Bit2MB Screen HPA 800x600x16M

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 17 2005,03:26

A quick use of the Forum search button revealed the following thread:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....n;st=30 >

Bottom line, try booting from the livecd with the boot command:

dsl xsetup vga=787

and then choose the xfbdev server from the menu.

Good Luck.

Posted by gjam on Mar. 18 2005,13:14

Thanks it worked perfectly...