Setting up X-Windows on HP OmniBook 4000C computers running Linux.

To setup Linux, I used a ZIP-drive. Since not too many boot disks support ZIP, I had to create one that does. To accompish that, I compiled a 2.0.35 kernel with ZIP-drive support, mounted my old boot floppy on another Linux system, copied a new kernel over the old one. Then I ran lilo with a special lilo.conf, which I will place here soon.

For some reason, I was unable to setup my X-windows to run SVGA server using xf86config, and so I found an alternative. The way to cheat the system is to set it up as a VGA server, and then replace a link /usr/X11R6/bin/X pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA with one pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. The other way to do this would be to copy my XF86Config file into your /etc/X11/ directory, or other place where that file would usually reside on your system, and run
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/X. That way I obtained 640x480 resonlution, but was anable to achieve 800x600.
in a superuser mode.

Good luck setting up your system.

Last updated on October 10, 1998.