[nycbug-talk] X on OpenBSD & nycbug.org down

[Josh McCormack]

Glad to know that it's not just me not being able to figure this out. I 
tried installing opensuse 10, and it failed. Tried Freebsd 6 and it had 
lots of problems, and I couldn't tell if it finally worked. I tried Damn 
Small Linux and the display looked pretty wacky.

I think I'm going to give up on this one. Perhaps I'll reload Windows 98 
on it and sell it.

Thanks!

Josh


Okan Demirmen wrote:

> oh my - you mention fbdev and trident in the same message and it
> triggers unhappy memories. my sister oh so generously gave me her old
> laptop (thinkpad 1200i - not a real ibm, but some acer look-a-like). it
> had a trident chip in there and one had to use the fbdev to get the
> thing to even think about starting X. when it did, it wouldn't stick
> around for long. evidently, recalling from little research, that chipset
> was not well supported my xfree86 back then, and i bet not by the new
> xorg either. most of the stuff i remember dead-ended in unresolved
> "bugs", "hacks" and "workarounds".
> 
> try another OS, just to see what happens, but i'm mostly certain this is
> an issue with an old, not-well-supported chipset in X. don't know what
> vendors use it today and if support has improved.
> 
> good luck...
> 
> okan
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