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.
>
When you are setting up X and it fails the video test, select
*unlisted svga* for the video card when it presents the menu. This works
with Mandrake, so I would think that it will work with RedHat also.
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