6. X11R6 on the Portege

X was a bit more difficult to get running. The Portege uses a NeoMagic chipset for video. Until recently, NeoMagic was unwilling to provide documentation for their chipset to XFree86. Recently, with the help of Red Hat, these specs have been made public and the NeoMagic drivers are being distributed.

Debian provides a packaged version of the Red Hat neomagic driver. I used the generic set of x servers and fonts from Debian and also selected the neomagic package. It works well with this machine, given the right XF86Config file.

Thanks to Ross Boswell, another Portege owner, I can offer a nice XF86Config file just for this system. Here are two versions, ready to run with the neomagic X server:

An XF86Config for GPM users

Use this one if you use GPM for your mouse.

• XF86Config.gpm

An XF86Config file for regular mousers

This is the config file I use. It's for non-GPM users.

• XF86Config.psaux