Modem

["Robin Beckett" <subwolf@mail.enterprise.net>]

This is a really stupid question, so feel free to flame away. ;-)

I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest, it's 
all quite digestable, apart from the fact that it tells you what to do but not 
much about why you're doing it. I'll work that all out with other FAQ's, etc 
eventually, so thats not the problem.

It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed a package 
somewhere? Help!

Plus on the side I'm having serious trouble getting any decent screen modes 
out of my SiS 5596 (86C205 chipset), which is rather annoying. I'm just 
picking the Generic VGA driver, is there a catered one which I don't know 
about? The problem is that the video memory is none existant, it uses on board 
memory instead, it's one of these built-into the motherboard thingys.

I'm getting.......

SVGA: PCI: SiS SG86C205 rev 17, Memory @ 0xe0000000, I/O @ 0x6000
SVGA: chipset: sis86c205
SVGA: videoram 0k   <--- This is 'cause it uses Standard Memory
SVGA: clocks: 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32
SVGA: clocks: "    " etc
SVGA: clocks: 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16
SVGA: clocks: "    " etc
SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 Mhz
SVGA: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "640x480"
SVGA: Removing mode "640x480" from list of valid modes.
SVGA: There is no mode definition named "800x600"
SVGA: Removing mode "800x600" from listt of valid modes.
SVGA: There is no mode definition named "1024x768"

Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.

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Help!

Have fun,

RtB.
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