This particular solo 9100 is a pentium 166mmx with 192MB of ram, 13.3" TFT with 4 megs of video ram.
video
With the vanilla redhat 7.3 install, I wasn't able to get X to run at a resolution any higher than 800x600 at 16bpp. 1024x768 would only work at 8bpp. After digging around on usenet, I found some appropriate modelines to make the screen work at the right resolution. Here is the X config file I ended up using for the 9100. The modelines in this file allow the 9100's LCD to display 1024x768x16bpp.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 40-70
Option "dpms"
# This dot-clock frequency works for 24-bit modes
Modeline "1024x768" 37 1024 1025 1026 1027 768 769 770 771
Modeline "960x720" 37 960 961 962 963 720 721 722 723
Modeline "800x600" 37 800 801 802 803 600 601 602 603
Modeline "640x480" 37 640 641 642 643 480 481 482 483
# This dot-clock frequency works for 16-bit modes
Modeline "1024x768" 56 1024 1025 1026 1027 768 769 770 771
Modeline "960x720" 56 960 961 962 963 720 721 722 723
Modeline "800x600" 56 800 801 802 803 600 601 602 603
Modeline "640x480" 56 640 641 642 643 480 481 482 483
# This dot-clock frequency works for 8-bit modes
Modeline "1024x768" 94 1024 1025 1026 1027 768 769 770 771
Modeline "960x720" 94 960 961 962 963 720 721 722 723
Modeline "800x600" 94 800 801 802 803 600 601 602 603
Modeline "640x480" 94 640 641 642 643 480 481 482 483
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Chips & Technologies CT65554"
Driver "chips"
BoardName "Unknown"
Option "no_stretch"
Option "lcd_center"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Chips & Technologies CT65554"
Monitor "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
high res console
Append vga=791 to the Kernel line in grub.conf will give a 1024x768 console. This is good as it makes the characters look less chunky/scaled. 792 might also work, but I haven't tried this.
network and sound
The next problem was the Ambicom pcmcia NIC I had added. It uses the same driver as other Ambicom cards, but kudzu just wouldn't have it. So I edited modules.conf by hand. The last problem was sound, and I'm not really sure how I got the right combination of irq's and dma's and hex addresses for it to work, but it does. The result is this:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias eth0 pcnet_cs alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2 post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options opl3sa2 mss_io=0x530 irq=11 dma=0 dma2=1 mpu_io=0x330 io=0x370