[GLLUG] xorg problem's laptop HP Pavillion zv6000

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

As far as I remeber, Solaris ran X, DSL ran X and KillBill (Slack based) 
ran X. All w/ no config's needed.

Caleb Cushing wrote:

> I'm trying to get X running on gentoo... and if any distro's ran X I 
> want to know what did. I need to figure out there configuration. 
> gentoo is very manual like FreeBSD or even but not as much as LFS. if 
> I can figure out what the file's look like xorg.conf and kernel 
> .config I can replicate it in gentoo. even if I have to leave portage. 
> oh and I think I've found the alsa sound module. it's an ati thing but 
> I'm not gonna test it until I have X.
>
> On 1/11/06, *Eduardo Cesconetto* <eduardo at cesconetto.com 
> <mailto:eduardo at cesconetto.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had a really hard ime to find any distro to work correctly in this
>     machine, then I gave up and bought an IBM... No distros at all ran
>     sound, and very few (including DSL) ran X.
>     []'s
>     Eduardo
>
>     Karl Schuttler wrote:
>
>     >I don't understand what it is that you are trying to do...are you
>     >trying to get X working on gentoo, or trying to install ubuntu?
>     >(although it sounds like you are trying to avoid doing that). X
>     >shouldn't be too difficult to configure. If you have the right
>     drivers
>     >build into your kernel or loaded with modules you should be able to
>     >just do an X -configure to make an Xorg.conf for you.
>     >
>     >On 1/11/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com
>     <mailto:xenoterracide at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >>some one at the group said they had this laptop and got rid of
>     it because
>     >>they couldn't get sound to work in ubuntu. my question is did X
>     work? if it
>     >>did can anyone think of a way I could find out how X and the
>     kernel would be
>     >>configured without installing Ubuntu? If I have to install
>     ubuntu I only
>     >>have 1 open partition. I'm currently trying to configure this
>     laptop in
>     >>gentoo. oh and I'm headed for class now. so I won't get
>     responses 'till
>     >>about 10 tonight. and I may not answer until tomorrow.
>     >>
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