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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>]

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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