Re: new user problems

[rb2@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de writes:]

>1. Is there a chance to install VSTa on a 386SX with only 2 MB RAM? All my
> experiments ended with a hangup resulting from 'freemem = 0'. Even if I
> commented out most of the servers in the boot script the first complex
> application like gcc or vi crashed VSTa.

Your only chance is to enable paging. I've changed the cache code so quite
a bit more memory can be reclaimed in the next release. Plan to do kernel
debugging if you page heavily!

>2. Is there a way to use the Video-BIOS of the graphics card? It would be fine
> if I could use at least the standard VGA modi. I want to do simple graphics
> in VSTa, if possible. The man who is working on the (MADO?) window system
> could probably answer this easily.

I don't know about running a BIOS; somebody was playing with mapping a
32-bit BIOS into his process, and getting some reasonable results. If the
BIOS is 16-bit, though, you're out of luck. You'd probably need to
implement V86 mode, a non-trivial task.

                                                Regards,
                                                Andy Valencia
Received on Mon Jul 24 11:06:25 1995