Laptop GUI.

I have been trying to install Linux on an Evesham Voyager 2700 Notebook with a 15 inch TFT/LCD display
and Trident TGUI9660 bios video.

I have tried both SuSE Linux 8.0, and Debian 3.9 (Woody).

They both install and even work OK from a CLI, but I have KDE problems.

The background colour of the pop-up panels is BLACK, and black print doesn't show up
very well !

How can I configure the nitty-gritty details of the GUI ?

I have no problems on my other Linux machines (which use CRT Monitors).

Best regards.

Geoff.

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I don't have direct exporience of that hardware, but just to check it, have you tried connecting the laptop to a CRT? If it looks OK there, then you might have a problem with the LCD not displaying enough colours. If it's broken on there, you might have the graphics card configured wrong.

erm - try the XConfigurator or XF86Setup to interactively mod the X settings.

Paul.

Paul Furness

Systems Manager

2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.

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In Suse 8.0 you can run SaX2 to configure XFree86 version 4 or SaX to configure version 3. An excellent gui config tool.

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