Older laptops have limited bitdepth and sometimes also require frame buffer mode. Dyne:bolic gives you options on bootup to set vga modes. You probably want to start by typing something like: linux vga=788 on boot lineDan ConklinHelp fight software piracy...use Linux!http://www.louddata.comNeed to know something about shooting and editing video? Ask us! --- On Sat 11/17, Kent Wood < kwood@??? > wrote:From: Kent Wood [mailto: kwood@???]To: dynebolic@???: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:32:50 -0500Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] video questionTry hooking a monitor up to the vga out and boot up again. It may be defaulting to the vga out instead of the built-in lcd. I've run into this on older laptops. It's a hardware thing, I think, and not a dyne thing. You can also try fiddling with the video output function keys on your laptop while its booting.Let me know how it works out.Cheers,-Kentjeffrey wrote:> i have an ibm thinkpad laptop. it's a T22 P3 1GHz with
256M of ram. with version dynebolic 1.4.1, i have no trouble at all. with version 2 and up X does not seem to start!! i get a dark screen with a non-blinking cursor at the top of my screen. what changed?!?! version 1.4.1 works so well why can i not get version 2 and higher to function correctly on my laptop? as an interesting aside, version 2.4 actually works right about 20% percent of the time!! (that is X starts correctly and i have an interface) what's up with that?? i'm sure it is probably my ignorance that is ultimately at fault but if someone could please give some kind of clue of what to do i would be much appreciative! peace, jeffrey p>> _______________________________________________> No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.> Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com> _______________________________________________> dynebolic mailing list> dynebolic@???> http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/dynebolic>>
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