Re: VPC machine on an IBM Thinkpad x-term video problem

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:15:44 +0200

J Burford Fields <jbfields3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just tried to install White Box Linux in a VPC machine on an IBM
> Thinkpad. I took the defaults and it came up in X mode and obviously
> is not right for the video and screen--unusable.

Well, change the configuration of the X server then. Problem?

> I can re-install,

WHY? In heavens name, why?

> but it took a LONG time to install.

I would hope so! Teach you not to do THAT again!

> Isn't there a
> way to switch to text-only mode at startup?

Of course. Umpteen. What's the problem?

> Next question: Although I use to be a UNIX admin (circa 1985), it's
> been years, and I just barely got Red Hat to find the wireless access
> to Internet on another machine,

Eh? One doesn't get other things to do ones work for one. If one
wants to "find" a wireless access (whatever you mean), one does it,
then one tells the machine what one has decided it would be best for
it to do.

I suspect that you mean

  a) load a driver for your card
  b) run iwconfig on the device to give it the appropriate essid
  c) run ifconfig n the device to give it an IP address
  d) set the default static route to go via a gateway on the wirelss net
  e) set the default name servers to be on the net.

> I'm at a loss for what video settings

Then become less at a loss! Look them up! Doesn't linux-laptops.net
list your machine?

Virtually anything at all works for a laptop - the settings are
ignored. There is no cathode ray to tell how long to take in each
sweep, or how much to wait in the sync. Just use any old Modline aimed
at about 60Hz. As low as you like!

> would work on this machine, and how to change them once install has
> been completed.

You use an editor. ("Problem?")

Peter

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