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Re: Running Executor on a laptop: advice sought



>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:

    Donald> I'm primarily concerned with the built-in video.  It
    Donald> supposedly contains a VESA video accelerator with 1 MB
    Donald> VRAM.  I don't know if it's VESA 1.x or 2.0 compliant; if
    Donald> it's 2.0, I'd be definitely interested to find out whether
    Donald> the linear framebuffer will work; if it isn't 2.0, I would
    Donald> want to run UniVBE on it.  I'd also be interested in
    Donald> whether or not it can do higher resolutions; although I'd
    Donald> rather run at 640x480, I might want to go to 800x600
    Donald> sometime.

We can't help you with that; those are questions about the laptop.
It's incredibly unlikely to have VBE 2.0 built in.  The only card I
know of that does that is the Matrox MGA Millenium.  As to whether
UniVBE will support it, you'll need to check
http://www.scitechsoft.com.

    Donald> I'm also interested in the sound, since (at least,
    Donald> according to the spec's I have) it has a 16-bit soundcard
    Donald> built in.  Unfortunately, I don't have any information
    Donald> whether it's Sound Blaster compatible or not.  Will it run
    Donald> with Executor's sound code?

If it's SoundBlaster compatible, it should work.  In theory.  I'd be
extremely surprised if it isn't SoundBlaster compatible, although
anything's possible.

    Donald> And, lastly, this unit has one of those newfangled
    Donald> touch-pads instead of a traditional trackball, mouse, or
    Donald> "pencil eraser" (that's what I call them; I mean those IBM
    Donald> ThinkPad-style devices.)  Do I assume correctly that,
    Donald> generally speaking, if it has a DOS-mode mouse driver with
    Donald> it, and if this driver were loaded, Executor would use it
    Donald> properly?

Sure.  We have a TI 4000M laptop with the "pencil eraser" device and
it worked fine with Executor until it broke.  Now we use an external
serial mouse.  As long as the mouse driver does the right thing, it
will work with Executor.

-Mat


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