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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:21:38AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:55:07AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> >>> The only thing remotely related to video is this:
> >>>
> >>> Primary Graphic Device [External PCI]
> >>
> >> I presume it is not set to this right now. If you set it
> >> to onboard AGP, you don't have any choice of shared memory
> >> size?
> >
> > The choices are AGP or PCI and it has always been set as
> > above. There is no 'External PCI' so therefore it must have
> > chosen AGP anyway.
 
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> >> How many slots came with the machine? One for the serial
> >> card and what else?
> >
> > One other, which I use for ethernet. It is connected to a
> > 'headless' computer where this box is backed up everyday. I
> > know of too many people who have lost everything when their
> > hdd went down, or something like that. That computer is used
> > for nothing else.

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> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    82006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xfbdev
>
> Try the above if you have framebuffer support. A generic server
> for framebuffer cards. (Xvesa is for vesa-compatible cards so
> works with older cards). Xfbdev is slightly smaller than Xi810.

> If you have framebuffer support your card should work with
> my smf kernel and vga=788 on the loadlin (or lilo) line at
> 800x600-16 (64K colors) res text mode. vga=771 is 256 colors
> at 800x600, 768 is 640x480 256 colors. If it says these video
> modes are not available you don't have framebuffer support.

I'll try that if i810 doesn't work. One step at a time.

>
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    877965 2006-05-08 10:27:27 bin/Xi810
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    843687 2006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xigs 856234
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:29 bin/Xipaq 914139
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:27 bin/Xmach64 872160
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xsavage 841146
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:28 bin/Xsis530 881964
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:26 bin/Xtrident 852660
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:29 bin/Xtrio 876265
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:30 bin/Xts300 863260
> > -rwxr-xr-x 0/0    2006-05-08 10:27:31 bin/Xvesa
> >
> > I wonder if David's area lost power. We are having a big
> > windstorm over here, and he's very near the coast. Haven't
> > heard from him.
>
> Which state? A friend in Seattle had to move to a hotel when
> they lost power not too long ago.

He's okay. Just got an email. No wind out there, which is unusual.
When we have one of these things the coast usually gets it worse.

Lee

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