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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 itfactor36 AT gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the help on this!
> Worked on this Toshiba using suggestions from here and other places.
> Turns out that Win95 took up the entire 500MB+ of drive, so wiping away this
> OS made getting further info that much more interesting.  Laptop's modem
> turns out to be a PCMCIA USR 3056 -- one of those useless-for-Linux
> WINMODEMS(!) -- so ppp and dialup svcs out for now :-(.  From DOS's MSD, the
First time I heard of a PCMCIA winmodem.  Lucky you.

> video is a 'CHIPS 65520/525/530 (Vesa) Flat Panel VGA', so vesa X setups
> apparently work great on this.

Xvesa is all you need if the chip does 15 bit or greater color.
You only need X_SVGA if Xvesa does not work, or if the card does no more 
than 8-bit color (XVesa does not do 8-bit) so that you can run programs 
that require 8-bit or more color, such as Abiword.

> Next goal would be to see about having the hard drive boot without a DOS
> loadlin-containing floppy.  Maybe using LILO the LInuxLOader on /dev/hda1
> would help speed up booting?  Another goal is to maybe tune the ext2
> filesystem to make it journalling.... the ext3 option.  Tuning the video
> options as suggested by others would be great if this will help run X
> better.

No need if you have enough colors with Xvesa.

I don't think the BL kernels support ext3 but you can use a different 
kernel, from Slackware (with same version of modules).

 Anyone know which module in BL3-40 would get an EXP CDS 940 PCMCIA 2X CD-ROM
> and 16 bit soundcard combination working properly as it did in Win9x ??  If
> card-CD-ROM working right in BL3, then maybe playing multimedia (CD's) and
> copying from CD's easier.

A compatibility list says some but not all of that model CD-ROM drive are 
supported.

I found a 1999 discussion in which someone tried to use ide_cs, which is 
wrong, and the output of cardctl (which I don't think we have) indicated 
that he has one of the ones that don't work.  It was supposed to work with 
some standard configuration but BL3.40 has only a minimal configuration 
for common cards such as modems and CF adaptor and some ethernet, and you 
may need to add the lines for your card.

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/ide/3.html 
(or search on your card model).

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1
Explains how to modify PCMCIA config for a new device, using cardmgr.

First time I heard of a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive.  If it is not IDE, is it 
perhaps parport or scsi?

Which sound chip?  There is a BL package for sb16 and modules for 
many other chips.

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