Re: [slug-chat] Joysticks on Win motherboards

[Jeffrey Borg <jeffrey@xxxxxxxxx>]

I saw a PIII800 with a board

there was NO other cards in the system

win video
win network
win sound
win modem
win usb
win everything else

I could not believe it!

They have stooped that low.

And I guess I wouldn't get any of it supported under linux. Maybe
usb/parallel/serial might work

Now there's a thought a software serial port :-)


On that note if anyone has any idea's about a 486 Diskless X term I am
having pretty big troubles trying to have Sound card + network + x going
at the same time

Take the sound card out (only don't load the modules) and it works fine

Leave the sound card modules loaded and it will also have problems with
nfs timeouts.

OH yes network and video are pci cards (it's pci based) the sound card is
an isa ESS1868

I have given up my great idea for now.

All in all it's very difficult to diagnose the problem because there is no
local disk.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Terry Collins wrote:

> David Kempe wrote:
>
> > > They don't. Get a new soundcard.
> >
> > Or get the game port adapter for the motherboard
>
> Thanks for this.
> Is this a standard or special adapter?
>
> When I first saw the box, it struck me as funny that the sound and games
> stuff were running off a card whose main outlet was the parallel port.
> It wasn't until we looked at the reason why the boot up was only showing
> 1M and it turned out that it robbed video memory off the main ram, that
> I twigged that this must have been a Win everything in software system.
> First one I've ever seen.