RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Darran D. Rimron
> -Original Message- > If you can manage to > find a mono monitor or work out some way to connect it to a composite > video monitor (unfortunately these cards don't have a direct composite > output), I can send you a card... If someone wants to cover postage, I have a mono monitor acting

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alex Holden
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > Hmm.. I think a mono card costs about $7 now... > Can't get them here for love or money as far as I can tell. I will be on > the lookout for one though. I have four. Three of them unused and in original packaging with manuals (they were going

RE: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
On Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:25 PM, Thomas Stewart [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : hi : : I've got one of those T1200's, prity old, now if I remember right, when I : got it it had a, (deep breath) ms-dos programm that changed the settings : that one would usually change in the bois. Go

Re: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Is that the setup1.exe program? I found a copy of the diag program on Toshiba's site, but it doesn't come with the setup program. I'd be interested in getting a copy, to see if maybe I can figure out what exactly it's doing. Greg Thomas Stewart wrote: > > hi > > I've got one of those

Re: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Thomas Stewart
hi I've got one of those T1200's, prity old, now if I remember right, when I got it it had a, (deep breath) ms-dos programm that changed the settings that one would usually change in the bois. God knows where the prog came from, but if anyone is interested, give me a shout. (It would be a was

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Louis P. Santillan
While on the topic of Video Memory locations...does anybody have good docs on RSIS (something that I just found in Undocumented PC, INT 0x10, AX = 0xFE00)? I was able to move the VGA location from 0xA000:0 to 0x1000:0 (not quite useful their) though there seems no way to control this. I also tri

Re: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I've read through the manual that shipped with it, and the doc from Toshiba's site. Here's the only file I've been able to find with useful information on their site. http://www.csd.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/files/download/t1200.spc I'll take another peek and see if they have anything else us

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Greg Haerr writes: > > > : Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them > : both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with > : initialising the hardware, and detecting which was present. > > I think it's this easy. the bios in some locatio

RE: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
> : > We need to turn off the T1200 auto-power-off mechanism, but I don't have : > a HW manual for the unit. : > : > Greg : : I have the original manuals that came with it here, if anybody wants : anything from them. Find the hardware I/O port to disable auto-power off.

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them : both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with : initialising the hardware, and detecting which was present. I think it's this easy. the bios in some location states whether there are one o

RE: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
: That part of the process is now problem. The difficulty comes in writing a : driver which can talk to both cards at the same time. : what about using what someone suggested just changing 0xB800 to 0xB000 on the switch and leaving it at that, using exactly the same driver? Greg

Re: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Greg Haerr wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:25 PM, Gregory Leblanc >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Ah, the T1200. I have one, and booted minix on it a while back, > I think I tried ELKS as well. It booted and ran for awhile, until the damned > Toshiba auto-power-off me

Re: Curses?

1999-09-29 Thread Benjamin C. W. Sittler
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Chris Starling wrote: > Is anyone working on a curses library for ELKS? > > Methinks this would be a very handy thing to have... it'd allow lots > of Linux console apps to run in ELKS that otherwise can't. I wish I > had the C expertise to port ncurses myself... *sigh*

Curses?

1999-09-29 Thread Chris Starling
Is anyone working on a curses library for ELKS? Methinks this would be a very handy thing to have... it'd allow lots of Linux console apps to run in ELKS that otherwise can't. I wish I had the C expertise to port ncurses myself... *sigh* -chris

RE: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Greg Haerr
On Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:25 PM, Gregory Leblanc [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : Just thought I'd see if there was anybody here, since I'm brand new to this. : I'm hoping to get ELKS on my Toshiba T1200 notebook (8086-10, 640K ram, dual : 720K floppies) and use it as a serial console for

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Christopher Kovacs writes: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:22:00AM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > Thomas Stewart writes: > > > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > > t

Re: your mail

1999-09-29 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Luke writes: > > > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > > > > > : > Or is there a better way to use the two cards together? DOS does not do this > > : > very well (appart from a few utills that switch the screen, and a few apps > > : > that support it (tcc).) > > : > > : There is

RE: xf86setup not helping with SVGA Card

1999-09-29 Thread dbsaint
Did you check the HCL card list for xfree86 ? if its not supported you may be out of luck with that card.. I'd suggest getting a S3 based card they seem to be the most supported as well as many others like matrox cards. if you get a 4 MB card youll get better color anyways.. time for a small upgra

xf86setup not helping with SVGA Card

1999-09-29 Thread Ramana Tadepalli
My SVGA card by Acer Labs ALI M3147V PC-Pnp Graphic Accelerator supports 1024x786 - upto 16bit 800x600 and lower- upto 24bit I have tried a lot to get similar results under Linux REDHAT 6.0. I get 4 bit pseudo color only .How do I go about with this. Someone please guide me. Ramana Tadepalli

RE: Anybody using this list?

1999-09-29 Thread Celley, Drew
> Just thought I'd see if there was anybody here, since I'm > brand new to this. > I'm hoping to get ELKS on my Toshiba T1200 notebook (8086-10, > 640K ram, dual > 720K floppies) and use it as a serial console for all of my > nifty serial > devices (hubs, routers, sun boxen, etc.) Anybody trie