Subject: Re: W98 driver ATI rage mobility
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 10:17:24 AKST
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:39, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> Would a pcmcia hard drive be an acceptable option?
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:21, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:53, Greg Madden wrote:
> > >
> > > I am doing my google search but so far I haven't found a W98 driver for
> > > a ATI Rage P/M Mobility card. Its for my Sony but Sony doesn't support
> > > anything but XP. ATI doesn't have drivers for this,they say the vendors
> > > finalize the drivers. I would try a driver from other vendors if
> > > available.
> > > TIA
> >
> > It only took four days of pain & suffering but I have W98 running on my
> > Sony FXA 63 laptop. The video driver was the key and I eventually found
> > one that worked on Fugitsu-Siemens site.
> >
> > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.de/drivercd/Start_GB_Notebook.htm
> >
> > BTW, Sony only supports XP and their support site is hard to use, nah
> > mostly useless. My Sony works well with Debian but lack of support and
> > some other minor hardware configuration issues don't make them useful
> > for my work.The hard drive is buried under the keyboard. A swap-able
> > hard drive would of been preferable to setting up a multi boot system,
> > esp when windows is involved.
Good suggestion, They would have to be bootable. There are some 5gb
(IBM,Toshiba) pcmcia drives available, I am not sure if Linux boots with
these.
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