Hi all,
Thanks for replying in English since the Google translator tends to get some words mixed up.
Ok I would like to run Geos2.01 on my ancient Thinkpad 500 for my small child who is not ready for a netbook yet. I need a GUI with a few simple apps that can run efficiently with 12M so I feel Geos2.01 is my only option.
I am running Geos2.01 in Vmware for fun and nostalgia. I used Geos1.2/2 back in the early/mid '90 and it is by far the best user interface to run on very old hardware.
Just as a note I'm a computer professional and have run just about every OS over the past 20 years... CP/M,DOS, Geos (C64 and PC),about every version of Windows on Intel, Solaris(Intel and SPARC), Xenix, AIX (Intel and PPC), various BSDs, OS/2 (Intel and PPC), Linux (PPC and Intel), Mac OS X and even BeOS/Haiku. So I have about 30 Intel OS images on Vmware these days and a few PPC machines.
Just a note on the TP 500 it does not have a math coprocessor so recent prebuilt linux images don't boot. A while back I compiled an old Linux 2.2 kernel with software FP emulation and have a few GNU text based apps. I did install X but it was just horrible with paging and also the 2-D acceleration is not functional with the SVGA XFree driver.
Thanks for the Geos VESA drivers list. Interesting the VESATEST.COM states the Vmware video is VESA compliant. I may just fiddle with the geos.ini file to force the driver.
My TP 500 only does 640x480 greyscale so the 640x480x16 is fine for the real hardware.
Danke schoen!