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ckx

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Posted: April 06 2006,19:54

Quote (MDG @ April 05 2006,07:25)

Hi CKX!
I too have an IBM Thinkpad 310ED (but ran WIN95). So far I have had the same results as you 640x480x16. I did find a keyboard combo to help with windows that open too big - if you hold down the Alt key and press and hold the Right mouse button you can resize the window. Then when you need to center up the window hold down the Alt key again and press the Left mouse button and you can move the whole window. I'm not sure how you tell all windows what size you want them.

Did you have any luck setting up sound? - I got nothin.

I'm anxious to hear all your results - - I'm really amazed DSL runs on this old laptop

No luck with sound, I still haven't looked at that. Do you have networking btw? They told me at a store that today's pc cards won't work on my antique. Then again, they showed me a very nice refurbished machine at a low, low price, so I'm suspicious.

MDG

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Posted: April 10 2006,02:42

Hi!

I'd be suspicious too! LOL If you are talking a regular network setup - should not be a problem. If you are talking wireless, could be a problem. Wifi - hey that would be cool, but I would be surprised if that could be setup, but then again, anything is possible.

I've seen some posts about using Xfree86 - I'm on dialup so downloading will take a while, but I would like to try it.

Messed up on my frugal install and forgot to specify where to put mydsl - if I could figure out which file that is stored in, I would edit it - but not that knowledgeable yet.

Hope to hear from you soon!

MG

andrewb

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Posted: April 10 2006,04:28

What were the hex numbers at the start of the 800x600x8 and 1024x768x8 lines?

You need to put dsl in front of the vga=xxx option in the boot line (i.e. dsl vga=808). When you do this you don't need any of the fbnnnXmmm cheatcodes.

I had no end of trouble with an old IBM 755C that worked OK 640x480 in windoze, but just would not run with linux. It was one of the WD90C24 chips. It wiull run with XFree, but the overhead of that was killing the machine - only had 36Mb Max RAM & as it's only a 486 it couldn'tcope with all the swapping & still run at a decent pace.

ckx

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Posted: April 11 2006,18:36

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What were the hex numbers at the start of the 800x600x8 and 1024x768x8 lines?

I got 0x0103 for 800x600x8 and 0x0105 for 1024x768x8, which translate to 771 and 773 respectively, which is what F3 shows you at boot. I did get 800x600 but the colors are all garbled. Maybe I don´t have enough video memory. I might try Xfree but I´ll have to get networking working first

ckx

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Posted: April 11 2006,18:39

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I bought a wireless card and it works fine -- under win98. I´ve tried to get it to work in DSL using ndiswrap but no luck so far. But that´s another forum.

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