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by **Victor Scott Burnl** » Thu, 15 Dec 1994 04:47:18

I'm thinking about getting a Midwest Micro Soundbook, and
I was wondering if anyone had installed Linux on one. The
graphics chip is supposedly some type of C&T chip (I want to
use an external monitor with it), and I
haven't seen any information or drivers for that chip. Any
comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,

Victor

by **Dave Beem** » Fri, 16 Dec 1994 09:09:54

|> I'm thinking about getting a Midwest Micro Soundbook, and
|> I was wondering if anyone had installed Linux on one. The
|> graphics chip is supposedly some type of C&T chip (I want to
|> use an external monitor with it), and I
|> haven't seen any information or drivers for that chip. Any
|> comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks,
|>

It uses the C & T 65540 chipset. (At least my dual-scan passive color
486/DX2 -50 model does.) At present, there are no drivers for it, so you
will have to use the generic 16 color VGA driver, which works well. This
only recognizes 256K of the video memory, so you are restricted to a 800x600
virtual screen. Some people are working on modifying a 65530 driver for
the 65540 aand 65545 chipsets, so there may be one available in a month or so.

Dave Beeman

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Midwest Micro Soundbook, C&T graphics chip

Midwest Micro Soundbook, C&T graphics chip

Midwest Micro Soundbook, C&T graphics chip