screen blanking on boot

[Duncan R. Bell]

right click on the desktop and choose configure desktop. You can change the font colors to you liking and lots of other choices are available.
johnb

Thanks for the suggestion! In fact, I couldn't read the texts at all, due to the grainy display, and white text font. This was all due to having the wrong resolution and colour depth settings, but I found a solution, which I've posted to this (Laptops) section on the site: I got the display setting right, and the colours and fonts were fine after that.

Now I just need to get the PCMCIA Card Manager to work, and I'm laughing: there is apparently a version problem (error message I get).

I ultimately want to put two network cards in the laptop and use it as an Internet firewall, so I need the PCMCIA slots!

Duncan

[johnb]

Hey,on my laptop I can left click on my battery icon and get a menu asking if I want to enable my pcmcia slot!

johnb

[Duncan R. Bell]

Hey,on my laptop I can left click on my battery icon and get a menu asking if I want to enable my pcmcia slot!

johnb

Tremendous: I'll give that a go tonight - I'm meant to be "working" at the moment

Duncan

[Descentlvr]

Knoppix 3.4 works GREAT on my Sager 4760, but you must use the 2.6 kernel. Sound, auto-detection, starts up wifi as soon as I put my ORINOCO PCMCIA WLAN card in, it's very, very nice. Mandrake 10 also runs on here, as well as an old MEPIS (2003.0 but it's all good guys. I recommend Knoppix of course