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Howard F Lowndes (lannet@albury.net.au) wrote:
: For what it is worth, I am running Linux very successfully on a
: Toshiba 430CDS with 16Mb RAM and 1.2Gb HDD (ie, bog standard machine).
: I have Windows95 in one partition and then Linux spread over a number
: of others, including a 16Mb swap partition.

I have the CDT - it works well as a Linux machine.

: The chipset is C&T 65545 (I think) and is supported by X86SVGA (or
: whatever it is called) I did have to fiddle with the modelines a bit
: to get X to work but it is now OK with 800x600x16.  The only problem I
: have with X is with some of the keyboard mappings and I a convinced
: that is to do with my X config and not to do with the machine.

I originally had some problems with X trashing text mode fonts when it
quit, but the latest X server (with RH 5.0, previously with 4.2) fixed
this.

: My netcard is a 3Com PCMCIA (I understand that the Xircom netcard is a
: no-go due to propriatery info or something meaning there are not Linux
: drivers) and my modem is a Xircom 28k.

The latest pcmcia drivers support several Xircom network cards,
including my combo modem/ethernet card.  (The pcmcia drivers with
RH4.2 didn't support these cards.)

I also have a SCSI PCMCIA adapter (Bustoaster relabled as New Media)
that the system recognizes.

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        Tony Cook - tony@online.tmx.com.au