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Posted: Mar. 23 2004,13:58 QUOTE

I hope this helps someone else!

I have spent a few hours trying to install DSL on an old laptop (bought 1987) with Pentium 166. It has a problem with its PCMCIA slots, and advanced power management, which are another issue: the main problem was that I couldn't get DSL to display properly.

I tried lots of different combinations of display settings (thanks for all the postings on this subject!).
I ended up displaying DSL with a variety of background colours: green, blue, grey, creamy, often very grainy. The screen texts were illegible.

In the end, this is what worked:

At the boot: prompt, enter

fb800x600 knoppix nopcmcia noapm

and press <Return>. (If you have no problem with your PCMCIA card manager, or advanced power management, you don't need "knoppix nopcmcia" and/or ("knoppix") "noapm").

At the "servers" prompt, select "xfbdev server" (not the default!)

and press <Return>.

Select the USB mouse and other options to suit your system!

It's lovely when it works :)

Duncan
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Posted: Mar. 24 2004,06:26 QUOTE

i dont mean to burst ur bubble but u state 1987 and pentium 166, um ok sure thosee where out then, 1987 was about the time of lets see 386's? i belive dont quote me. but i know 166's came out at least after 1992 "which my 133 is marked" so if anyone else has there say please add to this
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Posted: Mar. 24 2004,06:29 QUOTE

o also im glad u got it up and running i dont wana sound rude but i pay atention to stupid little things
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Posted: Mar. 25 2004,22:24 QUOTE

Quote (bostonrue @ Mar. 24 2004,01:26)
i dont mean to burst ur bubble but u state 1987 and pentium 166, um ok sure thosee where out then, 1987 was about the time of lets see 386's? i belive dont quote me. but i know 166's came out at least after 1992 "which my 133 is marked" so if anyone else has there say please add to this

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i dont mean to burst ur bubble but u state 1987 and pentium 166, um ok sure thosee where out then, 1987 was about the time of lets see 386's? i belive dont quote me. but i know 166's came out at least after 1992 "which my 133 is marked" so if anyone else has there say please add to this.

You're right: I meant 1997! 1987 I was using my first clustered IBM PC, with MS Word 4.0 for DOS on it, and a terminal on the faculty Wang mainframe :)

Duncan
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