tsrvesa.com and loadlin.exe

found an old posting on google groups

led me to find the matrox g200 utility zip file, and within, the utility tsrvesa.com

now I have a reason to have kept an old bootable win98 partition...

the tsr enables a vesa mode of the card, and then loadlin loads linux.
Once there, using the fbdev device in the xorg.conf

this typed while running the reasonably recent tinyos on my old K6 ...

and this edited with DSL 3.4.6

both running firefox 2.0.0.x.

general comments:
barely usable for browsing with firefox 2;

much faster with dillo, but fewer and fewer sites are pure html these days...

need to find a super light browser like dillo that supports css.