Emulate middle click with different buttons
This is isn't specifically related to Debian, but I recently have acquired an ergonomic 3m mouse. Unfortunately, this thing only has three mouse buttons, none of them being wheels. So, I went ahead and and set up the middle mouse button as an emulated scroll wheel like I have on my Thinkpad. However, now I am without a middle click and missing it quite a bit. And, I cannot use the Emulate Middle Mouse button (like I'm doing on my Thinkpad) because the right and left clicks on this mouse are physically mutually exclusive! http://www.3m.com/us/office/myworkspace/images/art/prod_med_ergo_mouse.jpg And, I can't do shift-inserts because my keyboard doesn't have a good Insert button :(. So, anyways, does anyone know of another solution? Like maybe I could emulate a middle mouse click with the middle button and the right click button? Or maybe something fancy with xmodmap with a given click plus a modifier? I am using Debian stable, so I'm still running normal xfree86, if it makes a difference. Please CC me on your response as I am not on this list. Thanks in advance for your help! Brandt Dusthimer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gtop
There is a gtop package in stable, but no package in testing or unstable. Is there a reason why? Is it in another package? Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer (Please CC me as I'm not on this list) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI Radeon 7000
Hrm... so your saying that there is no support for the 7500 in 4.1? Brandt Dusthimer -- :%s/emacs/vi/g On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:53, Andreas Eichner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2002 06:00 schrieb user list: > > > 2. Has anyone had success with an ATI radeon 7000 card with 4.2? > > If the answer is yes, is there a debian package for 4.2, or should I > > compile it from source? > > As you stated in an earlier mail, you have an Radeon 7500 (or was this > someone else?) and so you have to use the XFree 4.2. The driver of the 4.1 > seems to be unable to do the job for those new cards. A friend of mine has > had success with the 4.2 but seems to have no 3d-accelleration (he has an 800 > MHz Athlon, so it's hard to find out ;-) ). Following these links should > bring you to unofficial 4.2-deb's: > > http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2002/4225.html > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/x/ > > Hope it works... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using program output for a MOTD file
As bonkers as this might seem, does any one know if there is any way of setting up a file (like a motd file) so that it uses the output of a program like fortune? Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer -- :%s/emacs/vi/g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A strange error
Hrm... what kind of motherboard/ide chipset do you have? Also, what
process/es seem to consume all your CPU power (you can find out by
running top). Knowing this would be helpful :)
Brandt Dusthimer
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 04:06, shyamk wrote:
> Since today morning my Debian Potato r3 box has
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> hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> ide0: reset: success
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>In addition to this , I notice that the processor
>seems to be aggressively working even when nothing
>is being done -or- even when all users have logged
>out ! Strange , Windoze does not seem to be causing
>this kind of problems.
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> What can the possible reason be ? Is this indicative of
> some major/minor anomaly ?
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> Regards,
> Shyam
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Re: XFree 4.2 on potato
Sorry, there's no 4.2 right now. Branden hasn't even put it into unstable yet cuz it would mess up woody's stabilization process. If I were you I'd wait for woody to official come out (hopefully soon) and then see if XFree 4.1 works. Brandt Dusthimer (BTW, if your card absolutely needs XFree 4.2, post to this list again (or e-mail me) after woody comes out and I'm sure there'd be more than enough people willing to help you get X working :) On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:13, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > Is there a xfree deb package version 4.2? I need to upgrade to 4.2 for > my video card to work, I'm using potato on an alpha lx164. > > Right now I have 3.3.6 installed, but that wont work at all. > > Ted > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netatalk question
Greetings. I am a fairly experienced Debian user (for those of you who wish to get technical) with a question relating to Netatalk. I maintain a low security mac lab and it, for the most part, has been working fine as a file server for me. However, I have run into one large hitch; I, for some reason, am unable to have the Macs open the server at startup. It is a guest accessable shared (like I said, low security,) the computers are running OS 8.6, and the box is checked so that the shares should mount. I have no problem mounting other macintosh shares at start up and -savepassword is enabled. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer (Please CC me as I am not on this list) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Screwed with HDparm a little bit too much
Ok everyone. A response to this would definitely be appreciated. I was messing with the different HD Parm settings one day to see if I could get better thouroughput. I started to run a Bonnie++ test to see if my tweaking was doing any good. It stopped in the middle of the test and gave me a kernel panic (not good). I managed to reboot my box in a semi-proper way and it wouldn't boot. I think I fried my partition cuz I can't mount it with boot disks and e2fsck and fsck don't work on it on my new Slack Partition. Any advise on how to fix this would definitely be appreciated. By the way, when I first installed it I didn't care too much about my partition table setup I just wanted it to work. So the partition that's messed up is my root partition which contains everything. If I can fix this well, I can guaranttee that that won't happen again. Brandt Dusthimer
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
Problems with an NVidia card and you didn't tell me? First of all, have you looked through the previous posts on this forum for any answers? Have you tryed them all? Second, it really, really, really sounds to me like you didn't specify which module to use. As root run 'lsmod' and make sure that the "NVdriver" module is loaded. Next, open up your config file. It's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Make sure that its not loading the "nv" driver and is instead loading the "nvidia" driver. I believe that normal mesa doesn't work with the "nvidia" driver and causes it to crash when ever you try to startx(or whatever you do.) Using the "nv" driver it(mesa) works just fine and dandy. Mesa working (from what I understand) is not a good thing with the "nvidia" driver. Heck, mesa shouldn't even be on your machine (unless you can define all the time which GL driver to use.) If the above fails, check out my giant list of install/debug instructions to a guy with the alias of "dude." It should be in the news letter archive (its pretty recent so you shouldn't have to look too hard.) Brandt Dusthimer - Original Message - From: Bostjan Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: Re: nvidia + GL = X crash > * On 06-12-00 at 20:39 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > Want to send me a log of the X crash? I want to see what might be causing it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Terry > > > +and here the quote ends+ > Log is appended.. as it seems it gets sig11 (the program was built and linked > to the previous (libMesaGL) since the progs that I have compiled with nvidia's > GL libs give this error at startup (tuxracer example): > tuxracer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: > undefined symbol: __glTLSCXIndex > > Bostjan > -- > Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus > For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 > Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL > Tagline generated by 'gensig' mail-client-independent .signature generator. > Get your copy at http://www.geeks.com/~robf/gensig/ >
Adaptec 2940U2W
I have a selection to make and, unfortunately, I have to make it fairly quickly. There are two different Adaptec 2940U2Ws that I can get. One of them is standard whereas the other one is OEM and has a 50 pin external connector compared to the normal 68pin. I would really like to connect it to some 50pin external device, but I'm not sure wether the card with the 50pin would work under linux? Could I just use a 68pin to 50pin adapter for the external devices? Brandt Dusthimer
Video Card Setup
If none of you know already, I'm the server at my LAN parties. However I've come to a point where I don't know what to do. Opinions and/or advice would be appreciated. Here's what all (PCI cardwise) I want in my box (the numbers correspond to the PCI slot; 0 is AGP): 0. Nvidia Card 1. Voodoo Card with TV output 2. U2 SCSI (Adaptec one; I think 2930U2 or 2940U2) 3. 3ware ATA RAID 6200 (RAID 0 with 2 Maxtor 60 gigs) 4. Intel Dual Port LAN card 5. Personal LAN card (so my quake game won't be bogged down by uploads/downloads) 6. Sound Blaster Live! I've got a bit of a problem tho. I have yet to find a card with Glide 2.0/3.0 support thats PCI and has TV out. I would buy a seperate DVD decoder (since they're pretty cheap), but I have no PCI slots to spare. Quick Comment: Yes, I do know about IRQ stuff and how AGP/Slot 1 share the same IRQ and all that other good stuff. So please, don't tell me I'm going to whack up my IRQs. On with my babble. So what do you say? I want to be able to play DVDs to the TV along with desktop environment (did I mention Glide support?) At the same time, I want people to be uploading to me without any bog down and me being able to Quake 3 on my NVidia card all at the same time. (Yeah for linux's multitasking (And lots of CPU power and RAM.)) I want to make sure to impress them with my OS (and my box of course.) Brandt Dusthimer
My system clock
Sorry everyone about my system clock being messed up in some of my messages. My mobo battery's kind of loose so it occassionaly resets. Thanks for all your messages tho. Brandt Dusthimer
Re: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)
No problem with all this. I spend many months with many different video cards trying to get quake 3 to work. I really, really, really wan't to prevent anyone from having to suffer through the same stuff that I did. Now, on to your questions. First of all, are you using your own custom kernel right now? I figure that you aren't because compiling the NVidia driver returns "No modversions.h". Really, all you have to do is run a "make" in the kernel source directory and it will create the file modversions.h (or whatever it was.) However, I really suggest that you learn how to make your own custom kernel. Its fun and you learn a whole lot. However, I'm really not an expert on the kernel, so I wouldn't be the one to ask about all that stuff. Once you "make" in the kernel directory, you should be able to compile the NVidia Driver (all though it will be for the kernel in the /usr/src/linux directory. You might have to rename your kernel source directory from kernel-whatever to linux for this to work. ) As for the depmod utility: depmod maps your module dependancies. You'll probably want to run it after installing/playing with or whatever with modules. Brandt Dusthimer > > > Ok, Let says (as is the case here) > that i have installed a pristine vanilla > potato and then upgraded to woody. > > I have dselected the kernel source and all. > and i want to run my TNT2 card work > > what are the steps in additon to what you wrote > > DO i have recompile my kernel? > > i have installed the source > that i did the instial deb install with. > > I do i have have to config the kernel again? > > Or do i just have have the dependencies cleared up? > > and what is Depmod? > > thanks for all you time > > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > > Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about "make" ing your kernel. Do you > > know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you > > that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's > > source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be able > > to go into that directory and do a "make". That should hopefully take care > > of that "modversion" problem. Also, after doing all that, I forgot to tell > > you to do a "depmod" command too. > > > > Brandt Dusthimer > > > > Brandt > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: > > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:24 PM > > Subject: help (fwd) > > > > > > > > > > As i was saying this, is the output i get when i try > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:15 -0500 > > > From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: help > > > > > > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver > > > cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O > > > -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX > > > -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 > > > -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES > > > -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c > > > > > > and then it says > > > > > > nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory > > > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > > > > > > >
Good (but cheap) dual port LAN card
Anyone know of any good, but cheap, dual port LAN card? Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer
NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)
> Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about "make" ing your kernel. Do you > know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you > that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's > source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be able > to go into that directory and do a "make". That should hopefully take care > of that "modversion" problem. Also, after doing all that, I forgot to tell > you to do a "depmod" command too. > > Brandt Dusthimer > > Brandt > > > - Original Message - > From: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:24 PM > Subject: help (fwd) > > > > > > As i was saying this, is the output i get when i try > > -- Forwarded message -- > > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:15 -0500 > > From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: help > > > > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver > > cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O > > -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX > > -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 > > -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES > > -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c > > > > and then it says > > > > nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory > > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > >
Fw: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)
> Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about "make" ing your kernel. Do you > know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you > that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's > source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be able > to go into that directory and do a "make". That should hopefully take care > of that "modversion" problem. Also, after doing all that, I forgot to tell > you to do a "depmod" command too. > > Brandt Dusthimer > > Brandt > > > - Original Message - > From: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:24 PM > Subject: help (fwd) > > > > > > As i was saying this, is the output i get when i try > > -- Forwarded message -- > > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:15 -0500 > > From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: help > > > > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver > > cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O > > -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX > > -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 > > -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES > > -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c > > > > and then it says > > > > nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory > > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > >
NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)
Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about "make" ing your kernel. Do you know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be able to go into that directory and do a "make". That should hopefully take care of that "modversion" problem. Also, after doing all that, I forgot to tell you to do a "depmod" command too. Brandt Dusthimer Brandt - Original Message - From: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:24 PM Subject: help (fwd) > > As i was saying this, is the output i get when i try > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:15 -0500 > From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help > > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver > cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O > -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX > -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1 > -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES > -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c > > and then it says > > nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 >
Re: XFree86 + NV_GLX
Okay, if you've read any of my older postings, you'll realise that installing the GLX drivers is a snap (if you know what your doing). First, go to NVidia's web and download the GLX and NVidia Drivers. From the main screen, click on products, then drivers, then linux. That should get you to them. After you've downloaded them, put them both into your /usr/src directory. Then tar -xzvf NV(driver name) and then tar -xzvf NV(GLX). Go into the newly made NV(driver name) directory and type "make". "cd .." and then go into the GLX directory. Type "make" again. Okay, here's where things got a little bit tricky for me. First, type "dexter" and setup your config (if the "nvidia" driver isn't listed, just use the "nv" driver for now.) MAKE SURE YOU LOOK AT WHAT DEXTER WRITES THE CONFIG SCRIPT TO!!! I spent who knows how long "debugging" my box's X config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config) only to find out later that dexter had changed it to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I set it everything right. I was just using the wrong config file. Next, check out your /etc/modules.conf file. Make sure it says something in there about "alias char-major-195 NVdriver" or something like that. If it isn't there then go into the directory /lib/modules/your-kernel-version/video (or do a "locate NVdriver" to tell you where it is other than in the /usr/src/NVdriver directory.) After you get there "mv NVdriver NVdriver.o". Then do a "modconf". Go into video and select the NVdriver module. It should install just fine. After doing that (*gasp* *gasp* *breathe* . . . quick rest ... ok, I'm back) then edit whichever config file dexter wrote to. If you use vi, open in up and type "/". Then type "nv" and press return. It should find you where in the script it sets which driver to use. (The nv should be in parentheses.) Replace "nv" with "nvdriver". Now, if your not already in X, do a "startx". If you are in X, reset it (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.) Hopefully it should run just fine. If it doesn't ... just tell me, I should be able to help. Play Quake. Have fun? Does it run slow? If it does, you still have some mesa drivers lying around. Do the following commands : rm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a rm /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a rm /usr/lib/libGL.so rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLcore.so* Then, go back into /usr/src/NV(GLX) and type make. Reset X and it should work fine. Enjoy Quake :), Brandt Dusthimer - Original Message - From: Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: XFree86 + NV_GLX > Hello, > > I've a TNT2-Ultra graphicscard and it works fine with the standard nv driver of > the xfree 4 package, but is there a package where the accelerated driver is > included (that means, mesalibs, xfree-driver, kernel-module)? > > thanks for any advice, > Daniel Wagner > > -- > @gpg: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9925791/daniel_wagner.asc > C63A 06F0 3E2A A039 E830 83A0 C1DA 3479 803F 078F > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Converting to SCSI. HELP!!!
Me is dumb. I figured that DMA would already be in place. . . hehe. GUESS NOT SMART ONE! Uh, you wouldn't happen to be able to provide me with the info how to enable it, perferable in the best performance mode. If it envolves creating a new kernel, no problem. I've done that many times before. Plus, I've got a Thunderbird 750MHz. Takes only five minutes to compile it. As another side note, I'm using a Western Digital 30gig. I heard something about WDs not being up to par with other hard drives when it comes to . . . about everything. How much of that (That you know of) is true? Thanks a bundle (for the great $$$ savings hopefully), Brandt Dusthimer > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > and 2, I'm also usually the file sharing server. > so you know you're good ... ;-) > > However, when everyone's uploading/downloading to/from me, I > > experience major system lag and if do anything (even simple command > > prompt stuff) there upload/download time increases a lot. > > SO, being the all powerful linux user that I am, > !!! > > I have decided to > > start using SCSI. I am under the assumption that SCSI will help. If > > I am wrong. . . well I don't exactly have money spurting out my > > ears ( I bag groceries ), please tell me that I'm wrong. > > What's the computer & LANCard of yours? Are you sure that your system > is using IDE BM-DMA or at least DMA? > > First of all check that the drives are working in their best mode. > hdparm -v /dev/hd? will show whether DMA is used. Of interest is also > DRIVE read-ahead. You can tell the capabilities of your > DRIVEs with hdparm -i /dev/hd?. You will find a entry MaxMultSect. Use > that number to set MultSect with hdparm -m number. > > Second is the LANCard. If it's an ISAtype or a too simple PCI one, > expect overhead code executed there that sums up under heavy traffic. > > Besides other info sources, the boot-messages may already tell you about > your drives & lancard. A debian 2.2 copies them to /var/log/dmesg > > A girl in our network has a Fujitsu IDE 15G doing 15MB/sec and an IBM > IDE 15G doing 13 MB/sec. Her LANcard is a cheapo ne2kpci and while > she's gaming she can only tell by the noise from her hard drives that > some guys are using her PC as the compiler station ... > > greetings, martin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
10/100 LAN card
Curious question for you all. What's the best 10/100 LAN card for Linux. Currently, I'm using a tulip (Netgear something or another). I would like it to have good linux support and have fast transfer rates and be stable and all that good stuff. Perferably nothing over $150. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer
Converting to SCSI. HELP!!!
Here's a question for all you SCSI lovers and fanatics out there. When my friends and I have LAN parties I usually am: 1, the only linux user so I'm often the butt of other people's jokes (especially when things don't work right . . . :( and 2, I'm also usually the file sharing server. However, when everyone's uploading/downloading to/from me, I experience major system lag and if do anything (even simple command prompt stuff) there upload/download time increases a lot. Once again, this is another their poke-fun-at-the-linux-user jokes. SO, being the all powerful linux user that I am, have decided to start using SCSI. I am under the assumption that SCSI will help. If I am wrong. . . well I don't exactly have money spurting out my ears ( I bag groceries ), please tell me that I'm wrong. SO, here's all of my questions: What kind of hard drive should I get? I'm looking at IBM drives (18.2 gig for the shared drive, 9.1 for the system drive), but they're a little bit on the expensive side. I would like somewhere around 15 MB/s transfer rates (enough for my system and enough for the LAN card's 12.5 MB/s). What kind of SCSI card should I get? I'm looking at an Adaptec 2930U2. You may think I'm crazy for having a 80 MB/s card, but I figure that I, as a server/workstation, won't need to upgrade it soon and I won't mind paying the extra $20. Also, I'm planning on getting a Plextor 12x4x32. Good choice right? Hey, I figure why not. It's the same price as buying an IDE (around where I live) and it's cheaper than an 18.2 IBM hard drive. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer
Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more
Well, like I said, there aren't any other GL stuffs ( other than the NVidia stuffs that is) on my box. I was running Quake 3 fine and dandy (and everything else too) with Woody and the NVidia stuffs before. Then, since for some reason I had to remake the NVidia driver everytime I booted up, I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of Woody. Ouch. . . it kind of broke my box. I've fixed a lot of the stuff, but there are still some things that aren't quite working yet. For example, Quake 3. Also, right now only root can use the Emu10k1 (sound) driver. Can't play any sounds with any other user. For further information, I cannot start X with the NVdriver driver. I checked the log and the only error I could find was that it could not load GLcore. I did install (and re-installed) the drivers and X still won't load. Any help with any of the above problems would be appreciated. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer - Original Message - From: Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more > > > > >Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good = > >Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). = > >I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't = > >finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore = > >fails to load when I use the NVdriver driver. ??? Can somebody help = > >me? Do you think it has something to do with the symbolic links not = > >going into /usr/lib/? (I ran ldconfig) > >I checked. There aren't any other types of GL stuffs on my system. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Brandt Dusthimer (Who will no longer upgrade on a regular basis if = > >everything is functional like it was) > > I haven't seen any replies yet, so, here we go... > > Upon upgrading to Woody, XF4.0 should've installed. This uses new GL drivers and > such. So, if you installed any GL drivers in the Quake3 install (it's one of the > options) remove them as they are not compatible with XF4. The old lstuff should > be in /usr/local/games/quake3/?. > > For me, I have a Voodoo Banshee. I first upgraded to XF4 and then installed > Quake3 after that. During the install, I did NOT select the option to install > the GL drivers. Suprisingly (as something usually goes wrong), Quake3 started up > with no problems. I was very pleased:) > > If you still have problems, make sure that 3d apps work in general, then proceed > to Quake3. Also, IIFC, there is a flag you can pass when starting Quake3 to > specifiy which library to use. Hope this helps. > > Scott > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more
Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to load when I use the NVdriver driver. ??? Can somebody help me? Do you think it has something to do with the symbolic links not going into /usr/lib/? (I ran ldconfig) I checked. There aren't any other types of GL stuffs on my system. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer (Who will no longer upgrade on a regular basis if everything is functional like it was)
Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more
Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to load when I use the NVdriver driver. ??? Can somebody help me? Do you think it has something to do with the symbolic links not going into /usr/lib/? (I ran ldconfig) I checked. There aren't any other types of GL stuffs on my system. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer (Who will no longer upgrade on a regular basis if everything is functional like it was)
Quake 3 ran, I upgraded. . . Well, It doesn't run any more
Okay. I decided to upgrade to the most recent version of woody. Good Idea? Of course. Everything works . . . except Quake 3 (deja vu!). I've got this down to an art now. I know that for some reason X isn't finding the libGLcore.so.1.0.5 (or what ever it is) file and therefore fails to load when I use the NVdriver driver. ??? Can somebody help me? Do you think it has something to do with the symbolic links not going into /usr/lib/? (I ran ldconfig) I checked. There aren't any other types of GL stuffs on my system. Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer (Who will no longer upgrade on a regular basis if everything is functional like it was)
EQL with Broadband
Is it possible to do EQL with broadband? Brandt Dusthimer
Quake makes my mouse and screen mess up
If I play Quake for long enough, 10 - 15 minutes, my screen starts to flicker on and off. (turning of VGA power off in my BIOS allowed me to play for another 5 minutes before it started to flicker) Also, my mouse only responds to the up/down axis. I get absolutely nothing from moving my mouse left and right. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks in advance, Brandt Dusthimer
Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake
I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps me with a GLX error. I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a little editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in kernel 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine. In fact, everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit of X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.) Anyone know anything about this or had something like it happen to them? Brandt Dusthimer
Quake 3 still not running
It's me again still complaining about Quake 3. I did a fresh install of Debian-potato and then installed the official XFree 4.0.1 .deb packages (I know, its the easy way. .. ) Now, when quake starts up, it gives this as it kills X (this is just a snippet of the full log) : (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3 (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! SwitchToMode _ scrn: 0 clock: 25200 hdsp: 640 hbeg: 656 hend: 752 httl: 800 vdsp: 480 vbeg: 490 vend: 492 vttl: 525 flags: 10 Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting It happens whenever I start Quake. I now have a generic TNT2 Vanta card installed. Thanks in advance, Brandt Dusthimer
Re: more problems with X
For the upper 25% of the screen: You have some type of Virtual Windows setup. You can get rid of it if you edit the XF86Config. For the number pad: do you have Num Lock on? For the Xstart up: if your configuration allows it, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to dump yourself into bash or whatever you use. If that boots you back into X, I think there's a shell option like 'killx' or something like that (???). Otherwise, you can go into the shell (while in X) and do an 'xf86config' if you want. Then all you have to do is either restart X or reboot. Brandt Dusthimer > Greetings ! > > After help from a lot of folks on this list, I have a good news-bad news > situation. The good news is that x is now running. > > The bad news: > > (1) when x fires up, I only have what appears to be the upper left 25 % > of the screen; > > (2) I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, and the number pad on the far > right of the keyboard does not work; > > (3) linux automatically starts the xserver, and I can't get to a console > to check out my xf86config file to see what the is the problem. > > I will be most appreciative of any guidance. Please point me to a HOW-TO > or something that can give me some guidance. > > Regards, > > Bob Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fayetteville, Arkansas > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Best SCSI card for Plextor Drive
Any good one for under $100? > I have the adaptec 29160 with the 12x4x32. I get a sustained transfer of 38-39 > meg. I've no complaints. > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:20:35PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > What's the best SCSI card for a Plextor 12x4x32? I might add a hard drive later and am going to add a Plextor 40x. > > > > Brandt >
Best SCSI card for Plextor Drive
What's the best SCSI card for a Plextor 12x4x32? I might add a hard drive later and am going to add a Plextor 40x. Brandt
Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake
I originally had to comment them out because I hadn't compiled a kernel (and therefore modversions.h wasn't there). Now that I learned from that stupid mistake I deleted everything and tried again without editing anything. Do I still get the dump? Yup. I'm beginning to think it is my video card. ??? It's not supported under the XF86Config. ??? What do you think? Brandt Dusthimer > Why did you need to edit out moduleversions.h? > > Did you get both the kernel and the GLX archives? > > There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > Yup. Did all of that. Do you think that editing the Makefile code so that > > it would not load moduleversions.h had anything to do with this? The error > > reported from Quake is this: > > > > XError of failed Request: GLXBadRenderRequest > > Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX) > > Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_GLXRender) > > Serial number of failed request: 4510 > > Current serial number in output stream: 4514 > > > > Brandt Dusthimer > > > > > > > > > There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > > > > I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a > > > >TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. > > > >Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and > > > >all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps > > > >me with a GLX error. I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a > > > >little editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in > > > >kernel 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine. In fact, > > > >everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit > > > >of X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.) > > > >Anyone know anything about this or had something like it happen to > > > >them? > > > > > > > > > > Are you using the NVidia drivers included with X, or the ones from > > > Nvidia's website? In the latter case, did you follow the instructions > > > included with the driver about GL support (I don't remember the > > > details, but IIRC it concerns making sure that you're loading the > > > library from /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules instead of /usr/lib/X11R6/lib)? > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: new system to buy
Spend the extra $20 and get an ABIT KT7-RAID motherboard and a Thunderbird CPU. Also, look into a better video card. ATI doesn't support the Linux cause at all. You can pick up a TNT2 for $50 and with XFree 4.0.1 you can use NVidia's open source drivers. Plus, the TNT2s are ten times better than any ATI card (with the exception, in Windoze only, of their new Radeon.) As for sound, get a cheap-o Sound Blaster card. (The KT7-RAID doesn't come with on board sound.) Or if you want to spend $50, (and deal with Creative Labs *** (last part censored for obvious reasons) Linux support) get a Sound Blaster Live. Brandt Dusthimer > Hi all, > > after many months fighting with myself and then with my better half I'm > finally ready to build a new system. > > It is intended to run Debian and KDE2, maybe also OS/2 4. > > I did some research and i have the following in mind now: > > > motherboard SOYO K7VTA > Mem 128MB Corsair PC133 > HD DiamondMax Plus 15GB, 7200RPM, > UDMA 66 ST0151500U > Sound not really important, so I'm going to use the onboard > Graphics card ATI Rage Fury Pro ATI Rage 128 Pro > > case midtower with >=300W > > > No network right now, external modem (works superior: 48k-53k connections), > keyboard, trackball, tapedrive, cd-rom, printer from old system. > > Anyone any comment? > > Matth > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake
Yup. Did all of that. Do you think that editing the Makefile code so thatit would not load moduleversions.h had anything to do with this? The errorreported from Quake is this:XError of failed Request: GLXBadRenderRequestMajor opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_GLXRender)Serial number of failed request: 4510Current serial number in output stream: 4514 Brandt Dusthimer> There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote:> > I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a> >TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III.> >Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and> >all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps> >me with a GLX error. I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a> >little editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in> >kernel 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine. In fact,> >everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit> >of X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.)> >Anyone know anything about this or had something like it happen to> >them?> >>> Are you using the NVidia drivers included with X, or the ones from> Nvidia's website? In the latter case, did you follow the instructions> included with the driver about GL support (I don't remember the> details, but IIRC it concerns making sure that you're loading the> library from /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules instead of /usr/lib/X11R6/lib)?>>> --> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] </dev/null>
XFree 4.0.1 and Quake
I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps me with a GLX error. I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a little editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in kernel 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine. In fact, everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit of X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.) Anyone know anything about this or had something like it happen to them? Brandt Dusthimer
