Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #9 Sat, 20 Mar 99 17:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (jedi)
Sony Monitor Setup (Tomasz Lukasiak)
Re: Monitor Frequency (Xwindows) (Andrew Comech)
Re: Modems and KDE (Rob Clark)
Imation Superdisk as a backup device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to Make a bootable MO disk. (Vincent Lai)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Don Baccus)
Re: How about this modem?? (Allen)
Re: ghostscript driver for minolta PagePro 8 (Grant Taylor)
Re: Slow SCSI performance :-(
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card (Colin)
Re: PCI PNP Modem... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AMD vs PII (Maurice Kurland)
Re: What videocard do you use? (Rod Roark)
Re: AMD vs PII (Rod Roark)
Re: vi ("Anders G. Olstad")
Redhat and modem please read ("Elmer D'paz")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:14 GMT
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:45:06 GMT, Jeff McWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Szarka wrote:
>>On a fresh redhat 5.2 install doing rpm installs resulted in many
>>broken dependencies. It's just as annoying as the windows DLL mess.
>
>Keep in mind that this is distribution specific. I don't know anything about
>REDHAT as I don't use that distribution. But I do know Debian. Debian's
>equivalent of RPM is dpkg, and there is a higher level installation utility
>called dselect that lets you select lists of packages to install and it'll
>help you figure out the dependency issues. The Debian people have been
>very good about embedding dependency information inside their .DEB files.
>(The equivalent of .RPM packages in RedHat) If I try to install,
>for example, xbase-3.3.2.deb it'll make sure I have xlib6g-3.3.2.deb installed
>first. If I don't, it'll tell me I have a problem before proceeding with
>configuring the package I tried to install. It's a great feature.
I believe this is the process he is comparing with *dll hell.
>Debian CD's, as well as Debian's web page, gives you the dependency
>information for every package available. Since I find dselect clumsy to use
>(they're supposed to be improving this with a new utility called apt) I just
>use dpkg to pick and choose which .deb's i wish to install by hand. With the
>dependency information in there it's pretty close to fool proof.
>
>
>You're right though, that Microsoft DLL's aren't much different than .so
>shared libs under Linux. The problem with Microsoft software is that
>Microsoft encourages developers to include system DLL's in their software
>installations if they're required by the application. No version
>interdependency checking is done when this occurs. At best, the newest
>version of a DLL almost always gets installed, whether it's compatible with
>the rest of the system or not. I've seen people right in my own company
>seriously hose a computer's TCP/IP capabilities because Installshield Express
>thought a Visual Basic project needed WININET.DLL. Installing a new copy of
>that, however, breaks SHLWAPI.DLL (er something like that) in a way that
>breaks a lot of TCP/IP functionality without warning the user.
>
>This practice is unheard of using the Debian system. An installation of the
>mail reader elm, for instance, won't include the mime-support libs just
>because it supports mime. You go back to Debian for the mime-support libs,
>and dpkg makes sure the mime-support libs and the elm package are compatible
>with the rest of the libs on your system before installing.
[deletia]
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Tomasz Lukasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony Monitor Setup
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:44 GMT
Hi,
I just got a new 17in Sony MultiScan 200ES along with a Creative
Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT video card. I'd like to run at 1280x1024
resolution, but I want to use all the available refresh capability of
the monitor. The specs give it 30-70k kHz horizontal and 50-120 kHz
vertical. XFree86 gives three ready-to-go 1280x1024 modes, but the only
one that is below 70 kHz horizontal is also only 60 kHz vertical (thus
causing a slight flicker). Can anyone tell me the mode parameters
I should use in order to run at 1280x1024 with a good vertical refresh
rate?
Thanks
Tom
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Frequency (Xwindows)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:11:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've got a problem...
> When trying to set up Xwindows in SUSE linux v.6 I have problmes getting my
> monitor (and graphics card) to display resolutions of over 640*480
>
> I manage fine in WIndows 95 with a frequency of 60Mhz, but when setting up in
> SaX I can only choose resolutions at 75Mhz. How can I change this?
Do you mean -- refresh rate is 75Hz?
Actually, 75Hz is MUCH BETTER than 60Hz, because your eye easily notices
blinking of the screen with frequencies below 70Hz (just look a little
off the screen..).
If you look at the output of startx, you will see which combinations of
resolutions and vertical freqencies could (or instead could not) be
displayed.
(I am not sure if you know this: If you want a higher resolution,
press ALT-CTRL-`+'.)
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Subject: Re: Modems and KDE
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:33:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't have one of those US Robotics 56.6k WinModems...but it seems like
>it. I am currently using a Zoom 56K PCI Dualmode modem ( www.zoomtel.com )
>model #2925 modem. The WinModems don't have a DSP chip or something like
3Com has trademarked the name "Winmodem," but your Rockwell-based Zoom
2925 or Lucent-based Zoom 2925L is very similar. I'm afraid you're out of
luck until Zoom releases the "modem emulation" software for Linux. Right
now, that software is only provided for Windows 95/98/NT:
http://207.244.125.74/techsprt/drivers.shtml
The Zoom 2919 ISA modem and the Zoom 2949(L) external modems are real,
hardware modems, but the Zoom 2925(L) is a software modem like the
Winmodem.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Imation Superdisk as a backup device
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:11:17 GMT
Can the Imation Superdisk (120 meg floppy, 3.5 1.44 floppy device) be used as
a backup device on RedHat 5.2? Specifically, will tar, cpio, xbru, etc. write
to the device and prompt for the next media when it fills? I would like to use
the Superdisk as a 120 meg tape drive.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Lai)
Subject: How to Make a bootable MO disk.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:09:36 GMT
Can anyone tell me how to make a bootable MO disk in Linux?
Thx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, doole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you need YOUR privacy, then go ahead and fight for it. That's fine,
>I'm just curious about folk's thoughts on it.
>My fault, I know, but I still don't quite get the jist.
Well, you might consider than in the United States, yes,
our own little country, people have been denied jobs,
persecuted, and in other ways harassed FOR PERFECTLY
LEGAL BEHAVIOR.
Even in your stating that you do nothing in private
that you would mind having exposed "except for things
like sex", you are stating that to some degree
privacy is important to you.
Because, as I'm sure you're aware, in some states
certain types of sex - things less kinky than occured
recently in the White House - are against the law,
even when conducted by a man and woman joined in
holy matrimony sactioned by the state.
So, buddy, you never know, if privacy rights disappear,
it might be YOUR back up against the wall.
Those who wrote our Constitution understood the world
better than you do, I'm afraid...
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: How about this modem??
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:11:42 GMT
The "Virtual UART's" are the entire problem... You see, someone figured out how
to create a "virtual" UART with the win32 API's and thus was born the
"WinModem". Unfortunatly, they were very short-sighted in doing so, because
they assumed that everyone would either be running a microsoft OS, or would want
to upgrade? to one, and so there would be no hassles with them, or at least not
with the majority of the market, and they could cut their manufacturing costs,
and thereby raise their profit margins to show their stockholders that they
should be allowed to keep their jobs 'cause they had found a way to improve the
corporate bottom line.
I also follow the stock market, and 3com, Diamond, US Robotics, Hayes,
and pretty much all of the modem makers have had a massive rollercoaster ride
for the past few years, with the new V.90 standard, and b4 that, the 56Klex vs.
x2 fight, along with the increasing popularity of the internet with the general
public, the modem glut on the market before the V.90 ratification, and all of
these companies need to continue to remain profitable, while at the same time,
cutting both their manufacturing costs, and their support costs. For a software
modem, they can just point to an upgrade to their software each time a standard
changes, and with the java enabled win9x crowd, it can be set up to automaticly
install, and the user never has to actually do any thinking, or more
importantly, they don't have to pay very many technicians to help people through
their upgrades, and still keep a high customer satisfaction rating, particularly
among the Win/AOL crowd who will generaly be happy as long as they can log in,
check their email, browse the web, and get into a chatroom from time to time.
If they (the vendors/manufacturers) never get any more business than that, that
will still be enough to show a profit to the stockholders, so they aren't
willing to spend too much after that to get other business especially that which
may have special needs (read "more expensive needs to satisfy)
This entire speech may be a big case of too much information, but the
bottom line is always do your own homework. I don't think you want that modem,
but whichever one you get, make sure you can get a non-penalized return from
your vendor if it won't work FOR YOUR USE. Make sure that your vendor knows
that you intend to run it under Linux, and if they will guarantee that it will
do that or ALL of your money back then go for it.
There are real UART modems, even external ones available for much less
than $100. Browse this group on DejaNews, or just check
http://www.pricwatch.com/ There is a compatibillity list being compiled and
kept at :http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
see also http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
The On 18 Mar 1999 11:12:50 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was browsing at the local computer shop today
>and saw this modem.
>It is a Motorola Maxsenger (yes that's the way it's
>spelled) with voice. It seems to be designed around
>a motorola ASIC. The big chip has the Motorola logo
>and name. Among the requirments and features it
>says that it has a virtual 16550 UART. It claims
>compatibility with win95 and WinNT. It has an
>ISA bus interface. THis has me intrieqed. WHat
>i think I'm looking at is a DSP based modem.
>The Uart functions are programed into the DSP.
>Anyone know if this will work or can be made to
>work.
>
>It would be great if it can since it's selling for
>$39.00. The 3com modems are selling for over
>$100.00 I'm told.
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.news.groups,linux.help
Subject: Re: ghostscript driver for minolta PagePro 8
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:42 GMT
philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i want to use my minolta pagepro 8 laser printer under linux.
> does anyone know which ghostscript driver i shall use?
This printer is listed as working perfectly with the ljet4 driver in
the Printing HOWTO's compatibility listing.
See http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Slow SCSI performance :-(
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:50 GMT
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:46:08 -0500, Tibor Szentendrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Newbie here. I recently installed Redhat 5.2/KDE on a P100 with 32 MB RAM, 2 GB
>SCSI HD (Quantum Fireball) and SCSI CD-ROM (NEC). The SCSI adapter is an
>Adaptec AHA-1522B. The (subjective) performance is very disappointing, as
>compared to the same machine under Win95 (this is a dual boot system) or
>another Redhat 5.2/KDE installation on a somewhat comparable system (P133/64 MB
>RAM, 1.6 GB WD EIDE drive). There are long waits after a mouse click before
>anything happens. It takes almost 40 sec for Netscape to load.
>
>The hdparm -t 32 MB disk read test results on the linux partitions:
>
>1.38 MB/s for the SCSI drive ( ! )
>4-6 MB/s for the EIDE drive
No wonder, you're comparing an EIDE drive, on a controller on your pci bus,
to a lowly isa SCSI card. Put in a decent controller, a 53c81x or 53c87x,
or something like that, and you'll see rapidly improving performance.
>The SCSI card was not autodetected, I had to append 'aha152x=0x340,11,7,1' to
>lilo.conf to make it work, but everything else seems to be OK. I wonder if
>there is anything I can do to improve the performance. Please help. This is a
>system in our computer lab on which I wanted to demonstrate the superiority
>of Linux. Thanks.
Try evening the battlefield, and install a decent SCSI card, and please don't
cripple your system unnecessarily with ISA SCSI cards. It doesn't even do
busmastering, so it WILL cut in your performance.
Bas Vermeulen
--
When I shop for hardware I always look for the "Designed for Windows 95" logo.
I really thank Microsoft(TM) for encouraging manufacturers to label their
products this way, so I know what to AVOID.
I stick to quality software:
Linux 2.2.3 | IBM OS/2 Warp (TM) v4.0
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:40:11 GMT
Jon Slater wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a fast PCI Ethernet card for Linux?
>
Well, chances are that any recent Fast Ethernet card you buy nowadays will
work with Linux. I have a D-Link DFE-530TX card and it works fine.
--
Reply to "cwv [at] idirect (dot) com"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI PNP Modem...
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:40:34 GMT
Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if( modem_type == pci ) modem = winmodem;
Not quite; there are a (very) few PCI real modems.
> if( modem == winmodem ) you = screwed;
OK on that.
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Maurice Kurland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD vs PII
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:42:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
I am considering putting together a PC and would then like to try out
Linux.
I understand that if I use an AMD CPU I would compile Linux kernal as
for a 386. But if I use a PII
Linux can take advantage of this.
My Q is
Is there much to be gained by using a PII ?
Thanks in advance
Maurice Kurland.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: What videocard do you use?
Date: 20 Mar 1999 20:51:14 GMT
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ATI Xpert 98, chipset: ATI 3D RAGE PRO TURBO, 8MB, 2x AGP
This is the one I use on my desktop currently, and am very pleased
with it. It's fine for 2D, we sell quite a few of them. I like
1152x864 with my 17" Viewsonic E771, though the card can go up to
1600x1200.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs PII
Date: 20 Mar 1999 21:05:48 GMT
Maurice Kurland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I understand that if I use an AMD CPU I would compile Linux kernal as
>for a 386. But if I use a PII
>Linux can take advantage of this.
No, for both the P-II and the AMD K6-series you can compile as for
a Pentium CPU.
Consider a Celeron instead of the P-II - cheaper and about as fast,
as long as you're using a BX motherboard. Either will be faster
than AMD at the same core frequency if you're doing much floating
point math.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: "Anders G. Olstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vi
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:20:50 +0100
Burkard B. Kreidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: When in editing mode, press [Esc]
: Then type :q if you want to quit
: or :wq if you wanna save and quit
: Don't forget the colon.
There's a 'Mastering the VI editor' at
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html
--
Anders Gulden Olstad @ Jeeves
RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36
"Penguins are generally nice creatures"
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From: "Elmer D'paz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat and modem please read
Date: 20 Mar 1999 21:55:41 GMT
I have Redhat 5.2 and I can't make my Diamond SupraMax 56i moden to work
with it. I don't believe it's a winmodem. Is there a program to canfigure
it. is there any body using this modem. what can I do about it.
Please help!!
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