[rescue] More Nextstep for Intel questions...

[Rob Harhen]

DAMN CASINO! First taking my money, now taking urls.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: <deanders at pcisys.net>
To: <patrick at zill.net>; "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:57 AM
Subject: [rescue] More Nextstep for Intel questions...


> (Yes, it *did* take me long enough to change the name of the thread...)
>
> At 12:41 PM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> <snip>
> >Unfortunately you will only be able to find bits and pieces.
> >
> >Essentially, though, for graphics cards you can use most ATI "Mach32"
> >cards and the Viper 9000 cards, along with most S3 8xx and 9xx series
> >cards.  These are the local-bus and first gen PCI cards.  For enet,
> >DEC tulip and Cogent 10Mbps cards were well supported, I think.
>
> I did some poking around, and while it doesn't appear that my old laptop's
> video chipset (Chips & Tech 65554) is supported natively, there *was* a
> third-party driver (from Bifrost?). Unfortunately, Bifrost's URL ends up
> redirecting elsewhere (oddly, this morning it redirected to a casino of
> some sort; now it just goes to a page saying the domain is for sale), so I
> haven't had much luck actually *finding* the driver. The driver appears to
> have been available free for personal use, but I'm not sure that matters
> much if I can't actually *find* the driver. The fact that the company
> itself doesn't seem to exist anymore doesn't help.
>
> (The other company (Synectic) that appeared to be involved *also* seems to
> be gone--their page redirects to a casino.)
>
> Of course, I'm not sure it would really work for me, anyway--the Portege
> 300CT has a nonstandard 1024x600 display, and I have no idea how easy it
> would be (or if it would even be possible) to make the Bifrost driver work
> with it (sure, I could just use it at 800x600...but I don't really *want*
to).
>
> I guess I could always try to pick up an even older (and hopefully
> better-supported) laptop...but if I'm going to do that, I might as well
> pick up something entirely different. Part of the appeal, after all, was
> owning a Nextstation of some sort *and* running Nextstep on it...
>
> Maybe I'll just wait until this summer, when I will hopefully have both
> more room and more disposable income...
>
> (Of course, I really ought to get my Sparcstations working first...and I
> need to find a keyboard that'll work with the O2...)
>
>
> Derek Andersen
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