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Old 11-14-2008, 09:57 AM   #1
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Modem and Videocard not seen in freespire


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.

Last edited by freespirit me; 11-14-2008 at 10:49 AM.
 
Old 11-15-2008, 07:00 PM   #2
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#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 )
 
Old 11-15-2008, 07:01 PM   #3
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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/
 
  


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