[ILUG] more on laptops...

[Robert Sweetnam]

This kind of follows on a post I made yesterday, I've managed to get X
running on RedHat 6.1 on my CPi and everything is hunky dorey when I use it
out of the docking station
but when I dock it it automatically asks to configure the 3C905 and once
this completes it hangs when initialising device ethl0. No response from it
at all except Ctrl-Alt-Del which initialises reboot as per norm.
Im going to try again without configuring it and see if X works with the
external monitor.

Regards
Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: lbedford at wbtsystems.com <lbedford at wbtsystems.com>
To: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] more on laptops...


>On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:12:44PM +0100, John P . Looney gave forth on:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 03:58:04PM +0100, lbedford at wbtsystems.com
mentioned:
>> > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 03:37:57PM +0100, John P . Looney gave forth
on:
>> > >  Don't suppose anyone knows how the networking/video works on a
Laptop's
>> > > docking station, do they ? It's a Dell latitude CPi I'm interested in
>> > > specifically. Sometimes, when it's docked, all is OK. Some times, X
goes
>> > > nuts. And I've no idea what sort of networking the docking station
gives
>> > > you...
>> > The Latitude CPi is a PCI device, which adds a 3c905TX to your device
list...
>> > I think the docking station just takes the Video Out port on the laptop
>> > and repeats it round the back.. it also adds more USB ports... and more
PS/2 ports...
>>
>>  No, that's the wierd thing. The video out port is unused. It all goes
out
>> this wierd device. Might trying insmodding a 3c905 driver, but I can't
see
>> it working. It's all a bit odd.
>Yeah.. I know it all goes through one, it probably just redirects the video
out port
>on the motherboard :)
>
>It's a 3c905 though... I know that, we have NT on ours here...
>
>L.
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