Hello Bob.

11 Jul 04 13:08, you wrote to me:

 BL>> Anyway, it seems to work. Minicom looks a hell of a lot like
 BL>> Telix, and I'm tempted to see if I can use Linux on the BBS,
 BL>> even though it will be a monumental waste of time.

 JB>> It's only skin deep with minicom though, no salt scripting :(

 BL>> I'm still happy to use Win311, but there is no video driver for
 BL>> my new card. With Linux, nothing ever goes out of date and if
 BL>> it does, you download the latest version free.

 JB>> The latest version of Xwindows has no driver for my video
 JB>> card... :(

 BL>  Yair... you have to give Linux about 5 years to catch up.

it's the other way round... this old Trident 8900 (ISA svga card),
is too old and too mediocre to attract attention from any developers.

The S3 card had support but it (or the VLB on the motherboard) died :)

it still works in text mode.

Jasen

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