Re: [TCLUG:14887] [Fwd: xwindows/xga monitor]

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Dave Sherman wrote:

> Erick,
> 
> The fact that Caldera's graphical installer was able to give you a
> good picture seems to imply that X should run just fine on your laptop
> -- at least at 640 * 480 resolution (I think that's what they run at
> during the install -- I know the RedHat graphical installer runs at
> that resolution). 

Hey, that brings up a question:

I have some old boxes around here, and it seems that those that are just
VGA barf at the installer on either RedHat 5.2, Mandrake 6.0, or Mandrake
7.0.  Does anyone have any experience, or know why even the ncurses<?>
color text screens should be a problem?  (My solution was to use Caldera,
which seemed OK -- even though it used graphics screens.)

Just wondering...

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