Toshiba Tecra780DVD

[Bob Edwards]

Chris, that is very interesting. That may have been the problem I was having,
and I may have accidentally fixed it by switching back to the LCD display
without
really realising it.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

Chris Delfs wrote:
> 
> For what its worth.  I installed 7.1 on a ASUS laptop and when I started
> X/KDE it gave the impression it had locked up.  After playing around I
> found
> that the video output was going to the jack on the back of the laptop and
> not to the TFT display.  X would start then KDE would go through several
> initialization steps.  When KDE hit the peripherals step the TFT display
> would go blank but the monitor plugged in at back was fine.
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed Linux on Toshiba 2650XDVD and
> > had very few probs. I used SuSE 7.1 Prof though. I had
> > problems with Mandrake and RH; but hardly any with
> > SuSE. What is the config of the 780DVD? Let me know
> > and I may be able to give more specifics.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >  --- Bob Edwards <Robert.Edwards at anu.edu.au> wrote: >
> > Paul Matthews wrote:
> > > >
> > > > G'Day All,
> > > >
> > > > My friend lent me his Toshiba Tecra780DVD to
> > > install linux on (Mandrake
> > > > 8). It all goes well until the Xconfigurator
> > > stage, where no matter what
> > > > is choosen, all that results is a blank screen and
> > > a lookup. Any hints
> > > > here?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Paul Matthews
> > >
> > > I had a similar problem when I installed RH7.1 onto
> > > a Gateway laptop recently.
> > > Machine boots fine but when you start X, it all just
> > > locked up (actually, I
> > > think I could still log in with ssh, but not on a
> > > virtual console).
> > >
> > > I can't remember what Steven Hanley eventually did
> > > to make it work. I guess
> > > he might be able to help when he returns from his
> > > skiing trip. I think it
> > > might
> > > have been something to do with the keyboard or mouse
> > > configuration.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Bob Edwards.
> > >
> >
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