Can anyone suggest why I cannot get a video display on my Thinkpad
laptop using any of the media players under SuSe 8.2, although under
Mandrake 9.1 I get pictures (but no sound!)

The same install on a desktop system works fine, with the same screen
resoultion and colour depth (1024x768, 16bit)?

Its got me foxed!!

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Tim

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Tim Nicholson wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest why I cannot get a video display on my Thinkpad
>> laptop using any of the media players under SuSe 8.2, although under
>> Mandrake 9.1 I get pictures (but no sound!)
>>
>> The same install on a desktop system works fine, with the same screen
>> resoultion and colour depth (1024x768, 16bit)?
>>
>> Its got me foxed!!
>
>
> What Thinkpad? Is its graphics chipset listed somewhere for people using
> Linux, or is it so new it maybe isn't supported yet? I've worked more
> with RedHat than anything else, but does the X configuration tool offer
> you a "generic laptop" setting?
>


Its a 600X, and the chipset is autdetected fine (neomagic) by both
Mandrake and SuSe!