[ILUG] Linux on Advent Laptops

From: steve ryan (sryan at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Thu 06 Sep 2001 - 17:52:23 IST

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Hi All,

I'd appreciate some help from anyone who has installed Linux on an Advent
6414 laptop before.

I'm after installing Red Hat but I can't get X to work. I'm aware my graphics
card (SiS 630s) is a bit crap, but I know there is a work around where I add
vga=791 to my lilo.conf and turn framebuffer graphics mode on.

I've done all this but get the following error when I try to start x:
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Any ideas how I can sort this out???

Thanks,
Steve

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