On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Shawn wrote: > I have a couple of questions on my laptop. I'm running Slack 7.1 and am > facing these two issues: > > 1) My PCMCIA NIC card is recognized and the module is compiled into the > kernel. the only way I can get the card to initialize is by doing an > "ifconfig eth0 up" and then to rerun /etc/inetd1 to get an IP address or > network connectivity at all. I put both of these into the rc.local for > 2) I'm running Gnome, with the svga x-server. Looking in the manual, > my laptop can handle 1024x768 in 256, 65k, and 16.7M colors. It looks > like I'm running in 256 color, and I'd like to take it up to 16.7M. > There's no refresh rate listed in the manual for my laptop's monitor > (it's an XGA), and it has 2.5MB of video memory. Can someone give me an > idea of which lines I need to modify to get it to the higher > resolutions? > Thanks. > > Shawn 1) The NIC gets initialized by card services when it's plugged in. You should get a message on the console when you do so. I generally haven't had issues if my NIC is hooked up when I boot; if I plug it in later, I just run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 manually. 2) Try adding the line 'DefaultColorDepth 16' (in 3.3.x) or 'DefaultDepth 16' (in 4.x) to the section of the /etc/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config in 4.x) file that shows your server settings (under the one mentioning SVGA, add one of those lines before the 'Display' subsections begin). Hope that helps, -- Michael Vieths Foeclan at Winternet.Com