Re: EMC On A Laptop

["William Scalione" <scalion-at-dellepro.com>]

Bob,

 

Are you using the ZipEmc distribution? When you say you can see the

X value readout is that all you can see, i.e., numbers taking up the whole

screen? If so this is what I did.

 

- Downloaded version 4.?? of XFree86 with Win98

- Renamed file using the dos 8.3 filenaming convention, write down the

  original name to name it back later.

- Move it to linux directory

- Boot Linux and rename file to back original name.

- Untar the file and run the setup

- I think I answered the questions to whatever the default was.

- First time I tried to run X it had a problem finding a file. It was

  looking for a specific version of that file and I had the previous

  version. I renamed the file to what it was looking for and it worked

  fine. Sorry I can't remember the name of that file but you will

  find out as soon as you run try to run X.

 

 

Probably an easier fix would be to use a cheap S3 or Trident video card.

Linux seems to have problems with cutting edge parts or new parts. It

takes a while for the new drivers to be integrated into linux.

 

Bill

----- Original Message -----

From: Robert

To: Multiple recipients of list

Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:16 AM

Subject: Re: EMC On A Laptop

 

----- Original Message -----

From: William Scalione

To: Multiple recipients of list

Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:41 PM

Subject: EMC On A Laptop

I think it was Ray who, some time ago, asked if anyone has ever got
EMC runing on a laptop. Maybe it was someone else. Anyway, I just
recently loaded the ZipEmc distributation, without too much trouble, on
my Dell Latitude CPT - S500 which has a Celeron 500, 6 gig hd, and 32
meg of ram. The trouble I ran into was that the version of XFree86 that
comes with the ZipEmc disk does not support the Mach 64 Rage video
card that is in the latitude. While linux worked fine, X would not come
up in anything better than 320 X 200 resolution.

 

I have the same condition on a desktop machine, The next part is what I am not sure of.

 

I downloaded the new version of XFree86 and installed it without any trouble.

 

I can download using Win 98, but lost on getting it in the right spot and loading. How do I find out how to do this?  Maybe a different video card would use the server available. I can start SIM and see the X readout.

 

 Running the X setup program is now pretty painless, You don't even need to answer any questions, It was all automatic. X came up first time in 1024 X 768. Although I have not hooked it to my machine, EMC seems to work fine.

Bill