Modem and Videocard not seen in freespire

freespirit me · 11-14-2008, 10:57 AM

I installed freespire yesterday. The install sees everything except my dial-up modem and videocard.

US Robotics V.90 Faxmodem
XFX Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT 512MB

The resolution is capable of 1680x1050 in xp pro, in fs I got 1024x768.

Can someone point me in the right direction to get these working ?

Thanks.

amani · 11-15-2008, 08:00 PM

#su
#modprobe nv

or use the proprietary nvidia driver

post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Find the name of the driver module for that modem and do

#modprobe <name_modem>

(or install *buntu-8.10 for full automation )

farslayer · 11-15-2008, 08:01 PM

You will need to manually setup/install the drivers for your video card..
http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/...ceware_Drivers!

Your modem is probably a winmodem since that's about all they make these days..
http://linmodems.org/