[lug] installing linux on a fujitsu c4135

[ljp]

>On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jason Bowen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Wayde Allen wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jason Bowen wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Peter Bancel is visiting from out of town and is having trouble 
installing
>> > > S.U.S.E. 6.4 on this laptop.  I have never installed Linux on a 
laptop
>> > > before and would have to research as much as him to help.  He is 
at
>> > > 303-444-4972 and will be at this number for today and tomorrow.  
It is an
>> > > emergency for him and if somebody with laptop experience could 
help him it
>> > > would be much appreciated.
>> > > Jason
>> > 
>> > Has anyone offered to help him?
>> > 
>> > - Wayde
>> >   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
>> 
>> Nobody has written me if they have.
>> Jason
>
>Since I haven't heard anything on the list about this, I gave the 
fellow a
>call.  His main difficulty is in getting the X-windows system running.  
He
>has used some utility that says he has a Trident chipset, and using 
the
>YAST configurator he get X to try starting.  However, for the most 
part he
>seems to be getting unusable displays.
>
>It has been some time since I've played with SUSE and YAST so if there 
is
>anyone out there with more recent experience, you might want to 
consider
>giving him a call.  Supposedly someone did call earlier today and left 
a
>message, but didn't provide him with any way to call them back.  If 
that
>was you, please try calling 303-444-4972 again.
>
>My suggestions to him were to see if he could get the XF86Setup 
program
>running from the command line, and to try selecting the generic 
800x600
>vga display.  That would bypass YAST so he could experiment a bit more
>easily.  I also pointed him to the web page on laptops at
>http://www.linux.org. 
>
>He isn't particularly set on installing SUSE so if he is still stuck 
in
>the morning I told him to call me back, and we'd get together and see 
what
>we can do.

If his video is VESA compliant, he could set that up. I know I had 
(have?) to set use VESA on my ATI 
on my desktop, to get it running X. SUSE is probably the best for X, 
because they seem to be taking the lead in developing new x servers.  
If he can, have him check the manufacture's web site for chip set, to 
make sure.

LP