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Posted: Dec. 23 2003,14:54 QUOTE
Thank-you for the help  :)

The orginal link still does not work for me. I have tried it in Mozilla 1.6 Build ID 2003121012 and Konqueror:

An error occured while loading http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/XFree86/kdrive/8.0/:

Timeout on server
Connection was to www.tuxfan.homeip.net at port 8080

Must be the ISP. Anyway, thank-you John for posting a link. :) I have downloaded Xtrident.gz, and I will give it a try. I will post the results.




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Posted: Dec. 23 2003,18:14 QUOTE
After some screwing around I finally copyed the file to my laptop. It would seem that mount does not work properly on my system. It will only mount once and only "view" the floppy if it is dos formatted. If the floppy is formatted with ext2 then it will mount, but it will indicate that there is an error with the disk.  ???  There is no error on the disk. The floppy works good on my SuSE 8.1 box.

Anyway, I used some dos formated disks and booted up the system using dos and copyed the file onto my partition that contains DSL. When I rebooted and applied the Xtrident file I received a error 111. ??? I even tried to reduce the color to 4bit, and still nothing.

The laptop that I am "trying" to install DSL on is an 345C IBM ThinkPad (486DX4-75Mhz, 20MB RAM, 541MB HDD, FDD 1.44MB). I really could use some insight in the matter.  :)




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Posted: Dec. 23 2003,20:31 QUOTE
SpEcIeS, I did some googling for you and came up with very little useful for your particular model,

I suggest booting up in text mode and then probing Xvesa to see what the most usable setting will be for you.
As root try:
Xvesa -listmodes
That will give you a list of supported video modes.  I'd try them one at a time and test which results work best.  It might be that 640x400x8 is the best you are going to get.

You may want to reference:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xvesa.1.html



I don't think you are going to get a very pleasant X session using Xvesa, but you should be able to get something somewhat useable.
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Posted: Dec. 23 2003,21:21 QUOTE
Wow..  thanks John for you help.  :)

I will try out your suggestions. One question though, when I use the installation bootdisk the display image comes up just before the 'boot:' prompt. I figured, and I could be wrong, that if the image can be viewed then graphic display is possible. Is this a correct assumption? If so, what display does the bootdisk image use?




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Posted: Dec. 23 2003,21:33 QUOTE
Ok..  here is what happened. When I used the Xvesa -listmodes the command produced: Segmentation fault

Should I try and reinstall DSL? Perhaps the Xvesa file is corrupted?




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