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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:51:09 +0100
From: Dave Gilbert <gro.gilbert@treblig.org>
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Subject: X/ide on old machines
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Hi,
A few days ago Mark Wild asked about X and IDE on the old machinees
(A400/A310/R260 etc.) - well here goes the reply.
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This is being typed into a Netscape being displayed in X on my R260 -
I had to run netscape with the -mono option (I don't think it likes the
4 bpp display).
The kernel has IDE compiled in; but to stop it crashing the old
machine s you have to put ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe
ide3=noprobe on the kernel line - I'm sending a tiny patch to Russ to
fix this. I don't know what will happen if you but an IDE podule in -
but I guess it will work.
X on my A440 - 4MB of ram - works but is unbareably slow.
Dave
P.S. Please put up with more typos than normal - the backspace and
delete are arguing with Netscape more than normal.
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