I have been searching for information on running Gentoo on an IBM T23 laptop, and I keep running into your site. You seem to have already figured out much of what I am interested in. Do you have any how-tos on this? I have had nothing but troubles trying to find XFree86 drivers for the Savage IX, and I have yet to get VMWare 4.5 to run. Also, the sites for the OpenGL drivers for the Savage are no longer working. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks…
-- at 09:07 AM on 23 June 2004
erin wrote:
I don’t remember having trouble with getting X to run (at least, with gentoo). I used the savage driver that was shipped with xfree86 (i.e. emerge xfree, and fill in your Device section to use the savage driver, and you’re done).
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Michael Bauer wrote:
I have been searching for information on running Gentoo on an IBM T23 laptop, and I keep running into your site. You seem to have already figured out much of what I am interested in. Do you have any how-tos on this? I have had nothing but troubles trying to find XFree86 drivers for the Savage IX, and I have yet to get VMWare 4.5 to run. Also, the sites for the OpenGL drivers for the Savage are no longer working. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks…
erin wrote:
I don’t remember having trouble with getting X to run (at least, with gentoo). I used the savage driver that was shipped with xfree86 (i.e. emerge xfree, and fill in your Device section to use the savage driver, and you’re done).
This entry has a sample XF86Config file.
I also didn’t have to do anything funny to get VMWare working.
As I said somewhere along the way, the KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) rule does apply.