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- >>>>> "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.
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