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  • From: Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ltmodem, member contributions pages and misc.
  • Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 16:55:23 -0700

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:43:48PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> I downloaded from David's BL3 addon's site Ken's ltmodem.tgz package for
> BL3.40 which says it won't work for any other BL that is earlier, but will
> it work for BL2?
>
The ltmodem package works with kernel 2.2.26, so if BL2 is booted with a
2.2.26 kernel, it will work.
Ken

>We had to recycle the sometimes-booting computer with 4 ISA slots after it
> refused to boot with a keyboard plugged in (worked with USB keyboard) and
> the next day refused to boot at all, so are stuck with only one ISA slot
> now which I wanted to use for sound, and we have a 33K pci ltmodem to play
> with which prevented booting in one computer due to a PCI conflict but
> worked elsewhere as a winmodem. It was supposed to be upgradeable to 56K
> but I think it upgraded to X2 and I don't think the hardware actually
> upgraded, it is something in the software that only works in Windows.
> Are there 56K V90 lucent pci modems around? This one is just for practice
> since we have several external 33K modems that also work in DOS. My other
> option is the ES1370 PCI sound card (from a computer with fried
> motherboard and power supply) without AWE support - has it worked for
> anyone in BL? qemu supports it.
>
> The replacement computer (from a dumpster, came with stripey video and
> power supply problem) is 700MHz and has two ISA slots. We put in an
> Nvidia Riva128 AGP card which astonishingly does both Xvesa and SVGA X and
> 16-bit color at 1280 (but is too high frequency for 1600 on this monitor).
> When set to 24-bit color the X server defaulted to 8-bit, but when set to
> 16-bit it worked as that. 4MB RAM.
>
> The author of xkbset recommended Nvidia. Our other three Nvidia cards
> are space heaters. He said to look for a log of what the X server did
> somewhere in /var/log but I don't see one - do I need to run some daemon
> to create it? I see a log on exit from X. What does 'Syntax error:
> /..../rgb.txt:756' mean?
>
> James' cmiller link is to sdf, not to a BL3 page.
>
> My link is to the descriptive page, not the actual files, which are at
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl
>
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/blfiles.html
> is a list of what is what and how to use it without links to the actual
> files. It would be better to post both URLs.
>
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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