Re: looking for .....

2003-12-28 Thread Richard Dawson
I have several Cadet PC Radio cards. 8 bit, ISA bus. ADS technologies, Cerritos, CA. These are antiques requiring a 486DX33 or better! They also "need" a separate sound card. (The box says recommended.) The box also says it will work with Win 95, 98, or Linux. One of these days I will hav

RE: more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

2003-06-24 Thread Richard Dawson
t. Note: this is an ISA slot. Solution: Apparently Mandrake 9.1's installer does not probe the ISA bus. I loaded and ran sndconfig, accepting the default interrupt (5, I believe) and address. With that, sound seems to be working. Thanks to those who responded with suggestions. Richar

another round of questions regarding modem

2003-06-08 Thread Richard Dawson
Distribution: Linux 9.1 System: ALR Optima Pentium MMX, 116 MHz. (Why bother? Hey, with free software this machine is worth something! Besides, I'm trying to learn here.) Modem US Robotics V.everything internal , ISA board. (Yup, a vastly over-priced Cadillac. I bought it several years

Re: scrambled screen

2003-06-03 Thread Richard Dawson
I have had the same problem!!! You should see the mess you get in X-windows if you try to use version 4.X! I was told that there is a program called vgareset that one can run to get the command line console squared away. I was never able to find that probram, so I finally bought a different v

more compaq 4000 / linux questions.

2003-06-02 Thread Richard Dawson
As long as I have asked one question about getting this Compaq deskpro 4000 (5200MMX) computer with its 200 MHz pentium processor, I might as well go whole-hog and try to get everything working. Mandrake 9.1 didn't seem to find the ESS 1868 based. Compaq sound card. The Compaq card is a quasi-I

Mandrake 9.1 internet connection

2003-06-02 Thread Richard Dawson
I have managed to get linux 9.1 running on my Compaq 4000 (Pentium MMX) machine. After a bit of a struggle I got it to recognize the linux-compatible U.S. Robotics modem and assign it to ttyS4. Through the Mandrake Control Center (MDC) I used DrakConnect to set up the internet connection thro