On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, megatron@btinternet.com wrote:
> I found that I get a lot of keyboard errors when using X on my
> A7000 - X itself works nicely (albeit at a crawl compared to my
> workstation :) - to the point where it becomes unuseable.

Probably...

> I might try the latest 1.5Beta distribution, and see if that
> makes any difference (running 1.4Z at the moment - i think!)

May do, but I don't think that area of code has changed much since then...

> BTW: I scavenged a creative IDE CDrom from one of my old pc's
> and although it works great under netbsd, how do I go about
> getting it suported under RiscOS? (3.6 btw) Where can I download
> ide cdrom drivers?

You need to use configure to setup a cdrom drive (or is it that mystical *fx 
call...).  I think that's all you need to do, the os's have become a blur, I 
did have 3.6, got an SA so onto 3.7 and currently have 4

> (Also, as I've got no nic in the A7000 i have to network it
> using a dead slow 56/115k null modem cable [it doesnt like 115
> sometimes], is there any support for PLIP under netbsd?)

I'd be surprised if there's not something out there that can do it...

Cheers,
Chris