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> > > VIDEO--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >                         Active Video: VESA VGA (Version 1.1)
> > >                          BIOS Source: WESTERN DIGITAL INC.             
> > >                          VESA OEM ID: Western Digital Inc
> > >                          VGA ChipSet: Paradise WD90c31
> > >                 Max Video Resolution: 1280 x 1024 with 16 colors
> > >                     Max Video Colors: 256 (1024 x 768)
> > >                         Video Memory: 1024 KB
> > 
> > I looked in the svgalib manual for Paradise and Western Digital and this
> > chip is not listed in the list of supported chips, which explains why it
> > is not working properly with Links 2.1.9 in graphical console mode.

> > Does your chip work with Xvga16?
> 
> Yes. And also Xsvga but very slow.

This is probably because you have only 4M RAM, and the kernel and X and
Links are using more than that, so you need to swap to the swap partition
on your hard drive.  Do you see it accessing the hard drive a lot?



> > I have no idea why pdftotext for DOS won't work for you.
> 
> It should be because I have no math coprocessor. I have downloaded an
> emulator and will try out soon.

But Syschk says that you do have a coprocessor, that it is internal and
that it is using IRQ13. 

Maybe your coprocessor is a strange one, or it is broken, or the program
does not recognize it.  

 

> > I am still waiting for Doug to get back with me about the pdfimages
> > program and what to do with the working versions of pdftotext and pdftops.
> > I think I am missing one man page that ought to be included.  He is busy
> 
> Man page can also be searched. In google, search "pdftotext manual" or
> "manual pdftotext".

The documentation for pdfimages refers to xpdfrc(7) which Doug did not
include. It explains how to create .xpdfrc, which may be needed for
pdfimages to work correctly.  I don't have the file or the man page
on how to create it.