Mike,
It looks at least one person has gotten the 760XL to run under Mandrake
7.2, which I'm sure ships with XFree86-4.x:
http://www.geocities.com/digitallyblunted/Linuxlaptop.html
Setting up X-Windows:
Ok, I know that this laptop has a Trident Cyber 9385 video chip in it as
the IBM website will tell you. However, I think the Trident 9385 driver
that comes with Mandrake 7.2 is a bad driver because I could never get
it to work. This laptop can diplay 800x600 in 16-bit color though if
you follow these steps:
1) Choose "unsupported device" during the X-configuration. It will lead
to another menu where there is a "SVGA" driver. Choose this for your
graphic card driver.
2) For monitor, choose "IBM 9514-B TFT Panel @ 1024x768"
3) Go ahead and test the configuration, it should work fine. If not, use
the generic VGA driver and mess with XF86Config later.
NOTE: When choosing your default window manager, I wouldn't suggest
Gnome or KDE on this laptop. I ran Gnome at first, but it was AWFUL
slow on the 166. Try using IceWM or WindowMaker, these are alot quicker
in my opinion.
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Hope this helps!
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 16:07, Mike Manchester wrote:
> I'm sad to say that none of the new distros (Redhat 7.3, Debian 3.0)
> will work with my Thinkpad 760XL. And to make matters worse, I can still
> run windows on it :(
>
> The new version of Xfree does not support the Trident 9385 chip set
> which the ThinkPad has. I am very sad that a OS that I have been a
> stanch supporter of for the past few years is now pulling a Microsoft
> and forcing me to run Windows or upgrade my hardware.
>
> Does anyone know a work around for this? I'm not sure if the older Xfree
> will run on the newer kernel and if so that will be pain in the rear to
> setup for each new release.
>
> Guess it won't hurt of have one machine only for Windows though I really
> hate that idea.
>
> Mike M.
>
>
>
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