Do they come with nonwin modems? At 06:25 PM 10/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >No, I put it on mine, but I think they are putting it on now. You may want >to call and ask...1800gateway (18004283929). I love my gateway and never >lock up because of hardware. I use a dtlk synth on the only isa port on my >board. If you get a gateway, I obviously have experience, so let me know. >Jason >----- Original Message ----- >From: Brent Harding <bharding at ufw2.com> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3:59 PM >Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? > > >> Cool, does gateway put it on automatically? I don't know what they say is >> so bad with the new redhat 7.0, but I know my isp uses redhat, and this >guy >> says he can probably help me get some things going that I've had troubles >> in in the past. >> I went without swap on my machine, but don't find it to be a problem with >> 256 mb of ram, probably more than I need for now (figured ram would solve >> my windows lockup troubles, but it didn't, especially with trying to >record >> a lot of stuff at once like sound recorder or whatever.) >> At 08:34 PM 10/17/00 -0700, you wrote: >> >I have a gateway which runs redhat like a dreem! >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: Brent Harding <bharding at ufw2.com> >> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> >Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 8:25 PM >> >Subject: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? >> > >> > >> >> I was thinking of getting another machine to just run linux on. I was >> >> thinking to go either valinux or dell. I don't really know if there's >much >> >> else to choose from. I could just get another custom built with windows >> >> Millenium on it, do the famous format operation and put whatever linux >> >> distro I may choose, probably redhat or something (a distro I've not >tried >> >> out yet) on it. The problem I see is the computer place I got this >desktop >> >> from doesn't seem to sell open architect motherboards in systems now. >> >> They're more integrated, and have less slots now, and usb instead of >> >serial >> >> ports is bad news. They basically had this open architect board because >> >the >> >> on board sound on that other one started giving noise I didn't want, >and >> >> switching to sblive wouldn't work any other way. >> >> If there's no easy way to get speakup to load on plugging the >synthesizer >> >> in without rebooting, or for that matter replacing the kernel of one of >> >> these already set up systems, I could just get ethernet going and use >> >> telnet or ssh to it to do whatever I need from my windows/linux dual >boot >> >> system. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Speakup mailing list >> >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
