Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #9Sat, 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")
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]
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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
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #10 Sun, 18 Jul 99 19:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help! (Steve Arnold)
Radio card installation problems (root)
Re: About to build Linux RAID box. Need advice. (Chris Mauritz)
second hard disk (Stephen Tawn)
Re: Building a Linux Box - comments? (wizard)
(yet another) soundcard problem (Bruno MEUNIER)
PC Chips TX AGP Pro M/B? (Ian Briggs)
Exabyte NS-8 hardware compression? (Rohan Oberoi)
DirecPC PCI ("David A. Kimball")
Linux & HP710C, will it work ? (Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys)
Re: Ricoh CD-RW MP-6200A being read as floppy (DGehler)
Re: ASUS V3800TNT2 (Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys)
Re: Linux & HP710C, will it work ? ("jams")
Re: recovery nightmare, corrupt part'n table/MBR (Matthias Kilian)
Re: second hard disk ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: How much space for each partition? ("TURBO1010")
Number Nine SR9 video? (Rick Herrick)
LS-120? (Phillip McGregor)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help!
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:15:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pelly) wrote:
>I'm trying to use 2 ethernet cards in my linux box to enable ip
>masquerading. However, I'm having problems getting both ethernet cards
>to work. I've got an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 and a NetGear
>FA-310 card (I think those are the right model #'s). According to the
>ethernet-HOWTO, I can pass arguments to the kernel through LILO to
>tell it I'm using two ethernet cards. However, I'm not using LILO to
>boot linux -- I'm using a boot floppy instead.
Why?
>Either of the cards will load fine individually (ie, when I take the
>other out), but both won't work in the machine at the same time.
>
>So does anybody know how to tell the kernel to load both cards? I'm
>running RH 5.2.
There's probably a way I don't know about, but without using lilo, I don't
know of any other way except changing the kernel driver source. I'd say
installing lilo is the best way to go; you can use it boot different linux
kernels, ie, add a stanza to lilo.conf to boot your latest custom kernel in
test mode, so you can easily go back to your orignal kernel if something
doesn't work right.
Assuming there are no conflicts between the two NICs, you can add the line:
append = "ether=9,0x360,eth1"
to the right section of lilo.conf and you should be in business. The same
thing (without the quotes) will work from the LILO: boot prompt. Just don't
specify the first ethernet card (eth0); you only need to specify the ones
beyond the first one.
HTH, Steve
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Radio card installation problems
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:24:48 +0200
Is there anyone in this cruel world who can help me out?
I just installed RedHat 6.0 and I have a Aztech Radio card in my system
which works fine in Windows98. I checked the port, and it's on port
350. But somehow, when I recompile my kernel with the Video4Linux
driver & the Aztech driver, the card gives no reaction at all.
First I tried to compile the driver into the kernel, but there was no
reaction. After that, I compiled the kernel again, but now the drivers
as modules. With the 'insmod' command on the 'radio-aztech.o' I get the
message that the resource is busy. In any case, there's no /dev/radio*
or some other device whatsoever to be found in the '/dev/' directory.
And the worst thing of all: documentation on this subject is very
scarce
I'ld appreciate any help on this problem
Regards,
Peter.
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About to build Linux RAID box. Need advice.
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:56:14 GMT
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sincero arcadio wrote:
>> Floyd Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : the total power per unit is about 40 watts, and 8 of them adds up to
>> : more than 250 watts! Probably the best solution there is a pair of 250
>> : watt supplies.
>>
>> Oohh ... now theres an idea I haven't thought of! Use a pair of
>> 250watt power supplies. I've been doing searches for power supplies
>> greater than 300W and those things are actually pretty expensive (like
>> close to $100 or even more)! Using two 250W supplies would definitely be
>> cheaper. Now, i wonder how I would hook it up so one switch would power
>> on both power supplies ... doesn't sound too hard, but I'm no electrician.
> If you're go
