Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")

[Kevin Saenz <kevin spinaweb com au>]

Have you checked the RedHat site regarding laptop compatibility?

> 
> The laptop is a pentium 200MMX with 12.2" TFT,1.2Giga HD, 64Mb ram
> The brand is Hyberbok made by SUNREX
> model  hb 8603 (mm77t)
> video adapter is C&T 65554
> As far as know RH suppurts all the hardware
> During install recognizes correct the Video adapter but I think something
> goes wrong when I set the display as LCD 800x600 .I tryied also to set it as
> generic display but the only way it works is at 640x480 in 8bit (while it
> should be able to give at least 800x600 at 16 bit).
> one more thing is that when I try to go back to the display dialog (during
> installation) from the configure X then the display options are gone and I
> can't change any more.......
> Regards Tassos.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Saenz <kevin spinaweb com au>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")
> 
> > What are the specs on the laptop?
> > what is the brand of the laptop?
> > what is the model?
> > what video adapter does it have?
> > Does RedHat support all the hardware in the Laptop?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Just to add something my card and the notebook components are recognized
> > > correctly under RH 6.1 during  installation , the catch is that it
> doesn't
> > > install the correct modules or whatever it is.....
> > > And now think if I have so much trouble with components that are
> supported
> > > what will hapend to the unsupported ones?
> > > Anyway I figured out that since RH6.0 and CorelLinux work fine perhaps I
> > > should find what xfree86 they used and try to set it up for RH6.1 , any
> > > ideas on how i can do that???
> > > Regards Tassos
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
> > > To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:13 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")
> > >
> > > > Paul Newman pgen com wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Some commercial companies have rolled out Linux onto end user
> > > > > machines.  If the end user is a real end user with no tweaking
> > > > > permissions, just wants word processing, internet browsing,
> > > > > saving files on a file server, printing and internal and
> > > > > external email, then what's the impracticality?  Migration may
> > > > > be difficult but if the machines came ready-built that would
> > > > > get around that one.
> > > >
> > > > "Linux-ready" machines would alleviate a lot of hardware problems.
> > > > That much is true, but Linux distros do not currently have the
> > > > level of ease of configurability for basic setups that is required
> > > > to really "break into the market".
> > > >
> > > > Your chances of using Linux end-user machines are much better
> > > > in the enterprise client market.  Large corporations that have
> > > > extremely security-conscious, standardized user machines will
> > > > be controlling the configuration angle from the network, and
> > > > they can staff the right people to get it done.  In the smaller
> > > > business (non-Point-of-Sale, that is), Linux is much more likely
> > > > to play a server role than be anyone's personal machine.
> > > >
> > > > Linux distros are no more ready for the PC market than NT is
> > > > ready for the server market.  I believe that it will be easier
> > > > though for Linux to trickle down than it will be for NT to
> > > > wade upstream.  Of course, that's just my opinion.
> > > >
> > > > - Kevin Colby
> > > >   kevinc grainsystems com
> > > >
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