OT: UNIX on Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:55:20PM -0800, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>Bill Campbell cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
>> 
>> >I'm not sure I even want to know about X11.  For that matter, how would one
>> >handle X on an LCD flatscreen?  Do they even -have- sync rates and dot
>> >pitch in the conventional sense?
>> 
>> That hasn't been a problem with the ThinkPads in the seven years I've been
>> using them.  There's only one choice, but it works.
>
>What -is- the choice?  Which server, and what config?

XFree86 and Xorg both have had specific monitor configurations for IBM
laptops for several years now.  On SuSE >= 8.2, one selects the monitor
manufacturer as IBM, then chose the appropriate resolution and monitor type
(e.g. 1024x768 TFT for my TP 600).  SuSE 9.2 Professional even has some
ThinkPad specific utilities under the KDE menu system.

>> Now if you want to discuss sound, that's a bit nastier :-).
>
>Oy.  I shudder to think...  Sound's been twitchy sometimes depending on
>your card and chipset even on a PC, much less a laptop.  Support has
>broadened, but not enough.

I had it working on Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 and eDesktop 2.4, but haven't
tried seriously since switching to SuSE a couple of years ago.  If I want
to listen to music, I'll use my iPod (another good point in favor of one of
the Apple laptops :-).

Bill
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