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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL PCMCIA configuration
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:24:26 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, sindi keesan wrote:

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, sindi keesan wrote:

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Simon Atkinson wrote:
(I am using BL3)
Linux up an running on my Toshiba Libretto 100CT notebook -- not bad
specs: 64 MB RAM, 2 GB hard disk two PCMCIA slots etc. I installed BL3
on a partition running openDOS 7.01, suppressed all the relevant
start-up files (autoexec.bat config.sys etc) and booted up the system.
It seems to work fine though I can't get X to work. I suspect that the
current X server doesn't like the Neomagic graphics chip (I changer the
server at some stage)!

Since I have a Neomagic chip NM-2160 (same as in your Libretto) in my
Gateway laptop I looked up the info for it:

The chip is said to support vesa framebuffer. You can try my
framebuffer kernel for 2.2.16 or 2.4.31 as a test.
http://keesan.freeshell.org/2.2.16/zimage.fsm
http://keesan.freeshell.org/2.4.31/bzimagla.431

You would specify vga= some mode number with loadlin to use vesafb.
785 for 640x480, 788 for 800x600 true-color

I used my smf kernel with vga=785 and then loaded xfbdev from floppy disk.
It listed three listening sockets it could not establish and exited.

Many cards are Xvesa compatible (Vesa 1.2) but won't work with xfbdev
(needs VESA 2.0 and often that is not enough).

Xvesa -listmodes listed 800x600x24 and many other modes.
But Xvesa produces vertical pink and blue stripes. Without config.sys.

Slackware 4.0 xsvga.tgz ought to work. See Steven's no-xvesa.tgz at the
add-ons page.

SVGA X server works perfectly.

Gateway Solo 2000


Sindi





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