Linux-Hardware Digest #107
Linux-Hardware Digest #107, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 23:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: This ongoing flame-fest ("DG")
Re: N64/Dreamcast port (Matthias Warkus)
Joystick in Linux (Brady Bonnette)
Re: Modem for Linux ("Mr. Fastenow")
Re: Help! Kernel 2.0.36: SCSI CDrom lockup; aic7890 uw2-scsi onboard controller.
(Tess Lusher)
TORiSAN (Sanyo) CD-ROM drive... ("Mr. Fastenow")
Re: FS: Pentium Pro 200/512k HP (James Linehan)
Re: STB Velocity V4400 (Tess Lusher)
Looking for a cool HPC, how about this ??? (Ken)
Re: Image browser for linux? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] ("diener")
MiroMedia View - Does it work under Linux? (Raphael Becker)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (David Fox)
From: "DG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: This ongoing flame-fest
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:17:09 GMT
I do have a comment on that one. You want to tell me that just because you
went through a living hell means that others should too when it comes to
repartioning and then doing FTP install. Well, bozo, not everyone has to
suffer the same as you did. I did not say that I was buying a cd burner. In
fact if you read my initial posts, you would have jumped to the wrong
conclusion, you f** idiot. besides, since you have collaborated with
microsoft, chances are they gave you a chance to backup without having to
pay a few hundred dollars. Also, think about this. Every few months, RH
releases a new CD which makes your previous version rather extinct. Now
think about having to pile up all the old versions. Got it? Probably not.
You're a mentally retarded MF as are the rest of these pathetic idiots
except for "Crossbones."
Moriarty wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hey all...
>
>I personally like to read this and other Linux related newsgroups for the
>same reasons many of your others do: To learn from one another and help one
>another, if we are able of course... Unfortunatly, there is now a
flame-fest
>going on in this thread, and personally, I wish it would stop.
>
>I am not attempting to flame anyone on either the majority users or DG's
>side... I am just trying to clear the air... I mean, for many of us, USENET
>is more than just newgroups... USENET is a way of life... And, like in the
>real world, it is usually better for us to get along and become productive,
>than to always be angry and everything get destroyed in a heartbeat...
>
>To DG: I read your first post (the initial post that started this) that
>requested help from the members of these groups. I was going to respond to
>you, but I first (like usual) read the other people responses to your
>responses and, to be honest with you, after re-reading all the posts of
this
>thread over and over again, I fail to understand why you are so upset with
>us. In my opinion (and I'm sure yours and others will have differing ones),
I
>think many other people at first tried to help you find the easiest, least
>time-consuming way to solve your original problem. To be honest with you, I
>am all for the idea that one can log on to the net at any time and download
>either patches, updates, or the whole smoe of the Linux OS for free. The
fact
>that it was originally made available by Mr. Torvaldes in the source code
>format for free under the GPL is what has enable others and myself to
legally
>enhance and modify these sources and re-distribute them back on the net so
>that others, in whatever way they can, can benefit from the total sum of
our
>collective knowledge. Now, Mr. DG, I have collaborated with Microsoft
before
>on several projects and beta testing surveys, and I personally can tell you
>the frustration I felt when I needed to re-format my Windows partitions and
>do a complete re-install because of some renegade thread in a program which
>screwed it all up. I don't know about you, but if the only way you could
>restore Windows was to make a disk which has just the proper software,
tools,
>and drivers on it to just connect to your ISP, and then make the FTP
>connection each and every time the system dies, I think you would get
rather
>tired of repeating this task over and over again... I mean, a good complete
>software on Linux, in my opinion is over 500+ MB, and the basic Windows 98
>stuff is around what, 240 MB or so? And then, after you have spent the time
>required to download the software, then have to spend the time waiting to
>install it, you may be looking at several hours (based on the transfer
>figures you gave us at 500 MB/2 hours), and having a CD copy, in my humble
>opinion, would be a heckuva lot easier to keep on hand then to have to keep
>repeatedly downloading over and over again. When the earlier posters
>suggested that you make a purchase of one of the various CD-ROMS available,
Linux-Hardware Digest #106
Linux-Hardware Digest #106, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 22:13:33 EST
Contents:
Creative Virbra16 and Linux ("Tim Gajewski, KU4IY")
Re: This ongoing flame-fest ("jdn")
a2ps problems (root)
Cheap PCMCIA 10BaseT or Combo Recommendation? (William Yongwoo Jhun)
Re: Diamonds HomeFree for Linux ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
stalled dead at start of install (Michael Hagen)
Re: Adaptec 1522B (Andrew Rothstein)
Re: Canon BJC4300 with Redhat (Nicholas Edwards)
Re: WHEE Linux on an 386 (for real) w/ 4M (Ryan R. Henry)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Building a Linux box for home use. ("Clayton J. Ramseyer")
Problems with 'make' command. ("Gary J Sanderson")
Re: ATA Disk Controller in Linux??? (Tom Zeltwanger)
isapnptools wont make ("Michael R. Doerner")
Re: Mounting CDROM ("Jürgen Exner")
Noisy X Server (Dai Jones)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Acer 312T / Linux / CD-ROM bug fix ("Mosl Roland")
Re: @home cable modem problems suse 5.3 (John Meissen)
Minimalist Instalation? No CDROM (Douglas E Harmon)
Re: LILO problem - 01 (Daniel Buettner)
Re: mouse running wild in X (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: LILO problem - 01 (Patrick M. Geahan)
Re: PC100 Bus - What breaks? (Chris Cox)
From: "Tim Gajewski, KU4IY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Virbra16 and Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 12:10:23 -0500
Hello Everybody,
I am having problems with my Creative Labs Vibra16X PnP and Linux.
It reconizes the card when I type sndconfig, I select my I/O, IRQ, and
DMA. It writes the file and when goes to play the sound clip, I get the
following message: "An error was encountered running the modprob
program"
I am running RH 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35. I have taken out all cards (NIC
and modem) that might confilict with the sound card. Does anybody have
any ideas?
Tim
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From: "jdn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: This ongoing flame-fest
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:03:15 -0600
Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Minor comment: a paragraph can be your best friend, so MAKE A FRIGGIN' NEW
ONE.
jdn
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a2ps problems
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:12:28 +0100
I have some problems with a2ps.
I use suse6.0 and bought a new Kyocera FS-800 Laserprinter with ps level
2 and have some serios problems getting this to run under linux.
First I got only empty pages (with lpr -l) or printer hang ups (or it
was not able to print one page in 2 hours) (with lp) printing my
.bashrc.
But I was able to print every ps-file I found on the distribution (ok, I
tried only 5 different) and was able to use the printer in hp lj4
emulation.
Now I tried to use a2ps directly and found out that I do not get a
printer hang up if I used -ni, but I only got an empty page. So I tried
other parameter and found out, that useing -ns got me something onto the
paper, but only the header and footer and not my .bashrc (and its not
empty).
So I downloaded a2ps 4.10.4 and installed it. Now I am able to print
directly with a2ps, but therefore lpr .bashrc does not work. I already
found out why: They changed almost every parameter for a2ps (for example
instead -nP you have to use -o- for printing to stdout). Now I have the
problem that my apsfilter filter-files are not correct for 4.10.4 and
have some problems converting them for 4.10.4.
Has somebody these filter-files configured for a2ps 4.10.4 or has
somebody an idea how to get the old (I think it was 4.3.4-34) a2ps to
print onto my printer?
Many thanks in advance,
Norbert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Yongwoo Jhun)
Subject: Cheap PCMCIA 10BaseT or Combo Recommendation?
Date: 2 Jan 1999 18:23:57 GMT
I'm looking for an inexpensive ($50 or less) PCMCIA/CardBus Ethernet card
that it either 10BaseT or combo and is known to work well with Linux - any
recommendations? I'm using an NEC Australia (FIC 6000) notebook with a
TI1131 CardBus controller.
I recall using a friend's "EXP" ethernet card that registered as a Relia
chipset and worked very well (NE2000 clone?). However, I haven't been able
to find that card...
Thanks,
William Jhun
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|William Y. Jhun - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|S.u.S.E. Linux | 2.0.34 | Cyrix6x86L-PR200+ | FIC Birch Plus 133MMX
|http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wjhun
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamonds HomeFree for Linux ?
Date: 4 Jan 1999 08:33:21 -0800
In article <76asvo$ojk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Does anyone know if there is a Linux-driver for Diamonds HomeFree
>(http://www.diamondmm.com/homefree/) ?
I hope you don't already have this.
I am acquainted with some of
Linux-Hardware Digest #105
Linux-Hardware Digest #105, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 18:13:41 EST
Contents:
Re: This ongoing flame-fest ("DG")
Re: Install Problems: PCMCIA Amb8002, Sound Card ESS1869 on my (James Youngman)
AudioPCI (Daryl Yager)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (Frank Miles)
Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 (Allen Wong)
Re: Biggest hw change without rebooting? (Bill Anderson)
Re: Modem for Linux (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Requesting opinions on UPS /w Linux driver? (Gary Momarison)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought (John Hagen)
Re: how to drive lots of serial devices (Lucas Oorschot)
linux on winbook xlii (Michael J. Hopkins)
Re: Making SURE Linux doesn't WAKE UP (power-up)? (Shane Bearham)
Re: Creative Virbra16 and Linux ("Elvis")
questions about SCSI card, tape drive, and CD-R (Eric Wyles)
sound card problem ("alexander_futasz")
Create Bootable disk with LS-120 drive? (Dave DeGear)
Re: linux viruses ("x")
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (jedi)
From: "DG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: This ongoing flame-fest
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:57:51 GMT
Yeah, well thanks for sharing your crap. Now go and stuff some vomit on your
face, pigfart !!!
Moriarty wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hey all...
>
>I personally like to read this and other Linux related newsgroups for the
>same reasons many of your others do: To learn from one another and help one
>another, if we are able of course... Unfortunatly, there is now a
flame-fest
>going on in this thread, and personally, I wish it would stop.
>
>I am not attempting to flame anyone on either the majority users or DG's
>side... I am just trying to clear the air... I mean, for many of us, USENET
>is more than just newgroups... USENET is a way of life... And, like in the
>real world, it is usually better for us to get along and become productive,
>than to always be angry and everything get destroyed in a heartbeat...
>
>To DG: I read your first post (the initial post that started this) that
>requested help from the members of these groups. I was going to respond to
>you, but I first (like usual) read the other people responses to your
>responses and, to be honest with you, after re-reading all the posts of
this
>thread over and over again, I fail to understand why you are so upset with
>us. In my opinion (and I'm sure yours and others will have differing ones),
I
>think many other people at first tried to help you find the easiest, least
>time-consuming way to solve your original problem. To be honest with you, I
>am all for the idea that one can log on to the net at any time and download
>either patches, updates, or the whole smoe of the Linux OS for free. The
fact
>that it was originally made available by Mr. Torvaldes in the source code
>format for free under the GPL is what has enable others and myself to
legally
>enhance and modify these sources and re-distribute them back on the net so
>that others, in whatever way they can, can benefit from the total sum of
our
>collective knowledge. Now, Mr. DG, I have collaborated with Microsoft
before
>on several projects and beta testing surveys, and I personally can tell you
>the frustration I felt when I needed to re-format my Windows partitions and
>do a complete re-install because of some renegade thread in a program which
>screwed it all up. I don't know about you, but if the only way you could
>restore Windows was to make a disk which has just the proper software,
tools,
>and drivers on it to just connect to your ISP, and then make the FTP
>connection each and every time the system dies, I think you would get
rather
>tired of repeating this task over and over again... I mean, a good complete
>software on Linux, in my opinion is over 500+ MB, and the basic Windows 98
>stuff is around what, 240 MB or so? And then, after you have spent the time
>required to download the software, then have to spend the time waiting to
>install it, you may be looking at several hours (based on the transfer
>figures you gave us at 500 MB/2 hours), and having a CD copy, in my humble
>opinion, would be a heckuva lot easier to keep on hand then to have to keep
>repeatedly downloading over and over again. When the earlier posters
>suggested that you make a purchase of one of the various CD-ROMS available,
>they were not trying to insult your intelligence, or take away your rights
as
>an Internet user - they (and I) were just speaking from the experience that
>years of tinkering and hassles of trying new things out has taught us. I
>believe one gentleman suggested you go to the Cheapbytes website
>(http://www.cheapbytes.com) and purchase the Linux distrubution for $1.99
>(w/Total shipping charges it comes to around $8.50 or so in US Dollars)...
>I honestly believe that these people were not trying to pick o
Linux-Hardware Digest #104
Linux-Hardware Digest #104, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 17:13:56 EST
Contents:
Re: Problems with 'make' command. ("Nicolaï Kisselhoff")
Linux on HP server (Gregory McAllister)
Re: Travan NS20 tape drives? (Artur Yelchishchev)
Re: LILO and booting from scsi (Daniel Buettner)
Vivitar MPP under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Create Bootable disk with LS-120 drive? (Dan Nguyen)
Re: turtle beach and linux? (Dan Nguyen)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations (David Fox)
Re: Building a Linux box for home use. (David Fox)
3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 ("Edgar J. Zaragoza")
Is Adaptec 2910 support broken in RedHat 5.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (James Youngman)
Re: I'm not making this up ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Re:Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home (Shane
Bearham)
Sony Internal Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re:Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! ("DG")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! ("DG")
how to drive lots of serial devices (Sven Koenig)
Re: Struggle with Soundblaster PCI128 (Smkurp)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Johan Kullstam)
From: "Nicolaï Kisselhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with 'make' command.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:09:49 +0100
You have to install make, gcc and gcc+ package (rpm).
Nicolas.
Gary J Sanderson a écrit:
>
> I've downloaded a couple of .tar.gz files from various sources on the net
> and untar'd them ok in my /tmp directory but when I come to 'make' them I've
> had errors. Particularly ones like CC: Command not found or c++ command not
> found, I'm sure its me not doing something right, maybe a command line
> argument or something but I can't think what is is.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this as its driving me crazy not being able to
> install new software. I'm running RedHat 5.2 (if it matters) and have
> installed make and gmake from the RPM's dir.
>
> TIA, Gary.
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From: Gregory McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on HP server
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:53:34 -0500
I've got an older HP 837 system that I would like to experiment with
putting Linux (Caldera 1.3) on. It only has a couple gig hard drive and
about 65M memory, but I just want to try it out and get a feel for linux
and apache. Does anyone know if Linux will run on a 800 model and since
I am new at this can you point me to any good resources/cook books etc.
Appreciate it,
Please copy my email address with your reply
Greg
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From: Artur Yelchishchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Travan NS20 tape drives?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:02:26 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geoffrey Anderson wrote:
>
> Stephan Loescher wrote:
>
> > What's the difference between Travan-5 and NS20?
> >
>
> While my experience is mainly with TR4 drives, I feel I can help you out
> a bit here. The native Travan drives do not have hardware compression.
> That will require your main CPU to provide the horsepower to do the on
> the fly data compression. The newer NS drives list hardware compression
> as a feature.
>
> Geoff
>
Hello gentleman,
I just want to add, that NS-series tape drives have
one more difference from TR drives - Read-While-Write
capability (like DAT and 8mm do), i.e. secondary
tape pass for verifying isn't required; the head
contains read channel for immediate error detection.
Regards,
Artur Yelchishchev
RISICO Ltd.
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From: Daniel Buettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and booting from scsi
Date: 4 Jan 1999 19:33:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A boot from a Red Hat install disk, is out of the question. With the
> hardware, no stock boot disk will work. I made the install on another
> system, where I did the recompile to add the drivers for the scsi hosts,
> which are only a few weeks old and SMP kernel. I have to pass special
> parameters to the kernel, on boot, to make it work. Now I'm trying to
> "clone" the ide drive over to a scsi drive, to get the system to boot
> from scsi. So far I've had no luck.
> The second stage boot loader gets loaded, but then LILO hangs. I get LI
> and then the system hangs. I know the problem is drive geometry, but
> so far I've not been able to figure how to change lilo.conf to
> accomodate the bios vision of the scsi drive. I read all the LILO
> documentation twice or more, and though there are instructions for
> using dparam.com to see the drive as the bios sees it, I've b
Linux-Hardware Digest #103
Linux-Hardware Digest #103, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 14:13:26 EST
Contents:
Re: Does Linux work with EZ-Drive? (Eunnok Sohn)
Re: Can run a AMD K6-2 300 with a ASUS TX 97 X MB ?? (Lyle Ainsworth)
Re: question about Diamond Fire GL 1000 ("helmut")
[Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (jisong)
Re: Modem ISA EuroViva 33600 LC-V under Linux (Rob Clark)
Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 (Scott Waddell)
Re: Trident 968x & TFT HHEELLPP!! (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: Linux RH and Samba Y2K ready? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux (Gary Momarison)
turtle beach and linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: @home cable modem problems suse 5.3 (John Meissen)
Re: Number cruncher Linux system Recommendations...??
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: Eunnok Sohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Does Linux work with EZ-Drive?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 09:38:45 -0500
i am using slackware v3.5 (w/ kernel 2.0.34). i am using EZ-BIOS
which is the Maxtor variant of EZ-DRIVE. Linux didn't do it w/
kernel 2.0.33, but it did w/ 2.0.34. when you install LILO, have
linux put it on the superblock of the linux partition, and w/ FDISK,
make your linux parition the active one. your computer should read
the first few tracks of the HD and read EZ-DRIVE, then it will boot
to the linux partition.
-Eunnok Sohn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adrian R Cook wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
>I am trying to install a new 4.3 GB Caviar hard drive on my machine, and
> apparently I need to use a piece of software called EZ-Drive to allow my
> machine to see the whole drive. (It seems that my machine's BIOS doesn't
> know how to deal with disks bigger than 2 GB: it's an old 486.) The Large
> Disk Mini-HOWTO doc seems to say that Linux is compatible with EZ-Drive,
> though only after kernel version 1.3.18 or something like that.
>
> Is anyone out there sucessfully using Linux with EZ-Drive? If so, what
> distribution are you using (and what kernel version)? Did you have to jump
> through any extra hoops to get it to work? I need to put Windows95 on the
> disk along with Linux, and Win95 apparently needs EZ-Drive to be installed,
> so doing away with EZ-Drive isn't an option. Just as an experiment I tried
> installing an old distribution of Linux that I had (kernel v1.2.13) with
> EZ-Drive already installed, and the Linux installer seemed to overwrite all
> or part of EZ-Drive with LILO on the disk's master boot record, putting
> things into a very weird state. I'm prepared to get a new distribution of
> Linux, but only if I can be reasonably confident that it will work with
> EZ-Drive.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Adrian Cook
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lyle Ainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can run a AMD K6-2 300 with a ASUS TX 97 X MB ??
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 01:05:16 -0600
The Asus TX 97 MB usues a regular socket7. The AMD K6-2 series chips all
require a "Super Socket 7" that is available on the Asus P5 - A/B MBs.
Lyle Ainsworth
Guyzmo wrote:
> I bought about 6 months ago a MB ASUS TX 97/X Mother Board and a cyrix
> P200+, but the cyrix is very bad !
>
> Last week, I bought a AMD K6/2 300Mhz.
> But, last Sunday, I saw in my MB book if I can put it, but the book was
> write in 1997 ;). Also, I gone on the ASUS web site, and they say that put a
> CPU faster than 233 Mhz is imossible !
>
> So the K6/2 processor -socket 7- is incompatible with the socket 7
> motherboards ??
>
> And if I really can't put a 300Mhz cpu on this motherboard, can I
> 'under'clock this CPU, or do I buy on other MB (or cpu) ???
>
> Please give me your response at this email :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanx !
> (c: Gu¥Zm0 =)
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From: "helmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question about Diamond Fire GL 1000
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:25:16 +1100
to run xfree86, you need an X server for your Diamond Fire card which I
assume has a PERMEDIA chipset.
download xglint.rpm from: (xglint.rpm is an Xserver gor GLINT, PERMEDIA &
PERMEDIA-2 based cards)
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/suse/5.3/suse/xsrv3/
install by : rpm -i xglint.rpm
then download installation instructions from: (you may have to ignore some
of the non-applicable instructions)
http://lissy.ug.btl.de/support-db/sdb_e/sndirsch_glint.html
Iori Yoshizuki wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, does anybody know if there is a patch for Diamond Fire GL 1000 for
>Redhat linux 5.2, if you do, PLEASE, PLEASE help me, i am stuck. thank
>you soo much.
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From: jisong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 14:30:59 GMT
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Linux-Hardware Digest #102
Linux-Hardware Digest #102, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 09:13:37 EST
Contents:
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux (David Kunz)
I'm not making this up ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Re: linux viruses (gus)
Yamaha YMF-740-V PCI onboard sound chip (Cyrill Steiner)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!!
("Crossbones")
Modem ISA EuroViva 33600 LC-V under Linux ("JJD")
Acer 312T / Linux / CD-ROM bug fix (Matthew Faupel)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (BL)
Re: Xg-Sequencer Software and Drivers (Stephen Bradly)
Re: Requesting opinions on UPS /w Linux driver? (Michael Steigman)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! (DG)
Hardware Requirements ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hardware Requirements ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have (Richard Stevens)
Driver for DiskOnChip ??? ("Sergio Martínez González")
N64/Dreamcast port ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kunz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux
Date: 4 Jan 1999 11:14:19 GMT
John Hong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
: : Last on the list in the Epson Stylus 800 Color inkjet.
: : Appearently there is a driver available that gives very
: : good OS/2 graphics printing. Price is right, as I can get
: : a rebuilt one for about $175.00. What about Linux support ???
:
: I myself don't like the way Epson has a fixed printhead. I'd
: simply get a Canon BJC-4300/4400 or HP 69x printer. Safest bet to go
: since they work fine under both platforms. Photo won't be the best
: (unless it is under Win-OS/2 or possibly Ghostscript). Plus, both are
: real printers, as in memory and emulation on board.
I don't know about Linux, but under OS/2 I've had excellent results
from my Epson Stylus Color 800 and I gave my Canon BJC away -- SLOW,
poor print quality, leaky cartridges, non-existent support. I've
printed about a case of paper with my Epson so far with no problems,
but I too am concerned by the fixed print head -- that's why I haven't
tried any non-epson refills or to reload an ink cartridge.
--
David Kunz
Operator Error... Replace operator and hit any key to continue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Subject: I'm not making this up
Date: 04 Jan 1999 12:21:32 +0100
My home pc has recently developed a rather strange condition... It's
definitely some kind of h/w quirk, with a peculiar Linux twist (only
happens under Linux), so I thought I'd share it.
First of all, there's nothing very special about my hardware setup --
it's pretty much a run-of-the-mill pc clone, a bit on the "legacy"
side, fortunately still under warranty. MB is an ATC w/VX chipset,
Intel Triton BM-IDE, a Caviar IDE HDD, ATAPI CD-ROM, Tseng ET6000 VGA,
48 MB EDO RAM. CPU is a Cyrix 166+. Worked fine for me for many
months, until it broke -- so here's the story.
It started with a CPU cooler failure, and the heat killed one of the
mainboard chips (so the technician said). So the mainboard was
replaced with another one of the same kind. That's when the funny
stuff starts.
Now everything works fine under DOS or W95 (well, as fine as that can
ever be...). But when I boot into linux, what first happens is
there's a strange pause (10 or 15 secs.) when the ide driver is
initialized. Then it goes on booting, and completes the boot sequence
with no errors or anything unusual. But when the login prompt is up
(no matter whether it's text console or xdm), I can't login -- the
keyboard is dead. That's right, no reaction at all to any kbd events
(including CapsLock, NumLock, whatever -- leds don't light up
either). I must repeat that the kbd shows no strange behavior
whatsoever under DOS, Windows, or BIOS setup.
It gets even funnier than that. Once about every 10 bootups (have no
idea what this depends on), there is no pause at ide initialization,
and the system seems to be working correctly. Nothing unusual in the
logfiles, either. Well, it does work correctly until I press either
CapsLock or NumLock -- ten the keyboard is dead again. The system as
such is working, though -- anything I can do with the mouse works
fine, and nothing is reported in the logfiles (it's a home box with no
facilities for remote access).
Bear with me, this isn't all yet... I again managed to boot up to a
(semi)working keyboard, brought up a text console, and figured I might
get some clue by running showkey(1) as 'showkey -s' to see what
happens when I press CapsLock or NumLock. And guess what: as long as
keycode is active, the kbd doesn't lock up, and the emitted scancodes
seem to be correct (to be sure, I didn't have a
Linux-Hardware Digest #101
Linux-Hardware Digest #101, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 06:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: Building a Linux box for home use. (Richard Ponton)
This ongoing flame-fest (Moriarty)
Re: Matrox G200, Xfree 3.3.3 Partial Solution, Need Help... (Richard Ponton)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36
Re: linux viruses (Henry Wong)
Re: Sound problem - CD's cannot be heard playing (Brugger Rolf)
PCMCIA drivers ("Gabriele Buratti")
Trouble of date on a Siemens Primergy 150 (Marc Dilasser)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MCA Linux (Linux for PS/2 Microchannel) (Mike Werner)
Re: Win 98 PCMCIA -> Linux no more PCMCIA... (Manuel Munier)
From: Richard Ponton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Building a Linux box for home use.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:44:29 -0800
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Hmmm. Didn't know about that. Anyhow, whatever you do, don't get any modem
that says HP or HSP in it's name. They are WinModems and a) only work in
Windows, and b) just plain suck since the only reason they would be a WinModem
in the first place is to be cheap.
Rod Roark wrote:
> JRED45 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am planning to build a Linux box that will be running Redhat 5.2 for home
> >use. I don't want to buy computer hardware( video cards,modem etcc..) that
> >wouldn't work for the Redhat 5.2 (incompatible) Does anybody has a Hardware
> >list that has been proven to work on Linux? specially those modems. Thanx
>
> Get an external modem: easier to troubleshoot, less line noise, no
> compatibility hassles. Supra seems to be mentioned a lot as being
> a good value.
>
> -- Rod
> --
> Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
> --
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From: Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: This ongoing flame-fest
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:22:42 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all...
I personally like to read this and other Linux related newsgroups for the
same reasons many of your others do: To learn from one another and help one
another, if we are able of course... Unfortunatly, there is now a flame-fest
going on in this thread, and personally, I wish it would stop.
I am not attempting to flame anyone on either the majority users or DG's
side... I am just trying to clear the air... I mean, for many of us, USENET
is more than just newgroups... USENET is a way of life... And, like in the
real world, it is usually better for us to get along and become productive,
than to always be angry and everything get destroyed in a heartbeat...
To DG: I read your first post (the initial post that started this) that
requested help from the members of these groups. I was going to respond to
you, but I first (like usual) read the other people responses to your
responses and, to be honest with you, after re-reading all the posts of this
thread over and over again, I fail to understand why you are so upset with
us. In my opinion (and I'm sure yours and others will have differing ones), I
think many other people at first tried to help you find the easiest, least
time-consuming way to solve your original problem. To be honest with you, I
am all for the idea that one can log on to the net at any time and download
either patches, updates, or the whole smoe of the Linux OS for free. The fact
that it was originally made available by Mr. Torvaldes in the source code
format for free under the GPL is what has enable others and myself to legally
enhance and modify these sources and re-distribute them back on the net so
that others, in whatever way they can, can benefit from the total sum of our
collective knowledge. Now, Mr. DG, I have collaborated with Microsoft before
on several projects and beta testing surveys, and I personally can tell you
the frustration I felt when I needed to re-format my Windows par
Linux-Hardware Digest #100
Linux-Hardware Digest #100, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 03:13:57 EST
Contents:
Re: Matrox G200, Xfree 3.3.3 Partial Solution, Need Help... (Craig Goodrich)
Re: AGP Support in Redhat 5.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought ("James A. Cleland")
Re: WHEE Linux on an 386 (for real) w/ 4M (LinuxCyrix)
Re: HP Colorado 5GB Tape Drive ATAPI interface error message on RH 5.2 (Rohit Singh)
Re: scanner problem: (Rohit Singh)
Building a Linux box for home use. (JRED45)
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux (Duncan Munro)
Re: Building a Linux box for home use. (Rod Roark)
Re: linux viruses ("G.M.Trias")
Re: Postscript printing problems (Norbert Goebel)
Re: Postscript printing problems (Norbert Goebel)
NEC multisync 2a modeline (Henk en Brendan)
Install Problems: PCMCIA Amb8002, Sound Card ESS1869 on my (Srinivasan Chakravarthi)
Re: Building a Linux box for home use. ("G.M.Trias")
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations ("Thomas Bendler")
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ( Larry Pyeatt)
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:33:09 -0600
From: Craig Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G200, Xfree 3.3.3 Partial Solution, Need Help...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
> 1) The Xconfigurator utility now core dumps on me. Has anyone else seen this
> aberrent behaviour and managed to resolve it? xf86config works just fine?
Check the date on Xconfigurator; it may be the one from 3.3.2 and the
new
X libs confuse it. xf86config is, I think, part of the X distribution,
so
it would be updated at the same time X is.
> 2) I notice that in 24 and 32 bit depths my colors are a bit off? For example
> the icons in netscape are an awfull sort of grey? Again, has anyone else
> noticed this? I have 8MB of ram on my G200, do I need to upgrade to 16MB or
> higher?
This also happens on my 4M ViRGE/VX. It may be a bug in either Netscape
or
in the SVGA server. I just use 16 bpp
> 3) Now when I do a rpm -qa | grep -i xfree, I see both the 3.3.2 packages and
> the 3.3.3 packages? Can I safely remove the 3.3.2 packages or do I need to
> uninstall everything for Xfree and install just the 3.3.3 stuff?
DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE 3.3.2! That'll blow away the corresponding 3.3.3
files!
Moral: next time use the UPDATE switch on RPM, rpm -Uvh
xfwhateverrpm
-i with --force is nearly always a mistake, and will have this result.
If
you want to clean it up, uninstall both and reinstall 3.3.3 OR (and you
may
as well try this if you have nothing to lose) reinstall 3.3.3 WITH THE
UPDATE
SWITCH this time. This might straighten everything out (or, of course,
it
might not...).
> 4) I notice in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file created for me there are
> references to an Accelerated Server? Does anyone know what this is? Is it
> worth looking into? Does the G200 support it?
The "accel" servers include XF86_S3, -_Mach64, -_W32 and so on. There's
a general long-term move to roll everything into the -_SVGA server,
which
is where the new G200 support is. In 3.3.3, for example, XF86_S3V is no
longer the recommended server for ViRGE, although it's still provided;
XFree recommends using the SVGA server which contains ViRGE (and Matrox)
acceleration. There's no separate "accel" server for G100/G200, but
don't fret: SVGA drives the card as fast as anything could (which, I
understand, is pretty damn fast; I envy you).
You might want to take a look at the XF 3.3.3 release notes and other
documentation at http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3 . Also, for your
amusement
and edification, I have an SVGA server at the URL below which supports
True Type fonts, and I'd appreciate someone testing it on a new Matrox
to see if it works (hint, hint).
Best wishes for the New Year,
Craig
--
Craig Goodrich
Rural Village Systems
somewhere in the woods near Huntsville, Alabama
Politics for the Thinking Redneck -- http://airnet.net/craig/g4c
Linux miscellany-- http://airnet.net/craig/linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AGP Support in Redhat 5.2?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 06:11:58 GMT
In article <76ov6d$gnc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rhs wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Does any flavor of Linux support AGP video cards? I can get it up with a
> >PCI card but my primary card is a Canopus Spectra 2500 (AGP). (Yes I know
> >there may not be drivers for the nVida chip yet.)
> RedHat 5.1 running XFree86 3.3.3 seem to work quite well with my nVidis
> RivaTNT card
>
> Oded
>
>
In fact, believe stock kernel (RH 5.0+) already supports AGP cards. I use
RH5.0 with a SiS6326 AGP 4MB card, with a Suse driver, not the XFree driver (
SiS not supported) - and it works just fine.
Rgds.
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Linux-Hardware Digest #99
Linux-Hardware Digest #99, Volume #9 Mon, 4 Jan 99 01:13:29 EST
Contents:
problems with intel EtherExpress Pro 10 ISA (Mike Furr)
Re: Help with soundcard in redhat 5.2
scanner problem: (Steverl)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought (Michael Meissner)
[HELP] Lilo & Large SCSI Drives (Craig McFarlane)
Requesting opinions on UPS /w Linux driver? (Steve Snyder)
Opinions on tape drives... ("James A. Cleland")
Re: Help: Xfree86 and Mach64 *AGP* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux acessible from Win 95 or NT??? ("David Martinez")
Re: Postscript printing problems (Norbert Goebel)
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux (John Hong)
MCA Linux (Linux for PS/2 Microchannel) ("Jeffrey S. Dutky")
Re: ATA Disk Controller in Linux??? (Erik Inge Bolso)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought (Raymond Lillard)
Re: linux viruses (David Fox)
Re: Opinions on tape drives... (Raymond Lillard)
Re: ATA Disk Controller in Linux??? (Tom Zeltwanger)
question about Diamond Fire GL 1000 (Iori Yoshizuki)
From: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problems with intel EtherExpress Pro 10 ISA
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 03:40:17 GMT
I can't get redhat to recognize my ethernet card. I have a Intel
EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA card which is listed as a Tier 2 supported card
on redhats page. I tried installing rh 5.1 from cd rom and the 5.2 ftp
disk images, both install programs won't detect my card on autoprobe or
when i specify settings. Although I don't know the exact format for the
settings. I've tried using both
io=0x230, irq=3
and
ether=3,0x230,eth0
and neither worked.
Any suggestions?
thanx,
-Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help with soundcard in redhat 5.2
Date: 4 Jan 1999 03:51:41 GMT
Billy Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I had the same problem, so I put the following into
my conf.modules and rebooted:
alias sound sb
options -k sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1,5
good luck
Hans
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From: Steverl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scanner problem:
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:15:27 -0600
I'm having problems using my Mustek flatbed 1200SP scanner. It seems
that my Red Hat 5.2 box recognizes it as a scanner but I can't seem to
get the damn thing to work.
I have installed sane through Red Hat Utilities but when I type in
xscanimage, I get: error in loading sgared libraries libsane.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I'm not sure what all of this means and of course I'm some what of a
newbie.
Can anyone help?
thanks steverl
--
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought
Date: 03 Jan 1999 22:01:36 -0500
James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm in the market for a new monitor, and I've decided to go with a 19
> inch of some type. My chief uses for my computer are coding, web
> browsing, email, graphic arts, etc -- in other words, mostly text
> based uses. I play games occasionally, but only a small fraction of
> the time compared to the other uses.
>
> I would like to be able to run at 1600x1200, but I'm not sure how well
> suited 19 inch monitors are for this type of activity. I like
> cramming a great deal of things on the screen, though, so I'd like to
> push as high as possible -- 1280x1024 would be fine if necessary. If
> it matters, I have an ATI All-in-Wonder (4 meg), and from what I've
> heard, it can push higher end resolutions/refresh rates without a
> problem.
>
> Right now I'm looking mainly at:
> Iiyama VisionMaster 450
In the past Iiyama had a good rep, though cheaper than the competition in the
UNIX world. Dunno about now.
> Viewsonic G790
You might want to look at the Viewsonic PS790, which is the 'professional' 19"
monitor produced by ViewSonic for the CAD/CAM market. It has many of the same
specs as the G790, but it has a .25 dot pitch instead of .26, though the
bandwidth seems lower (158 vs. 200).
> Optiquest V95
I don't know anything about his.
You might also look at the Nokia 446Xpro. Before I went to a 21" Nokia, I had
a 17" ViewSonic, and then went to a 17" Nokia. It was amazing the difference
in clarity between the two (and the clarity between the Mag I'm currently using
on my home machine and the ViewSonic was also amazing with the ViewSonic coming
in better, but less than the Nokia -- in monitors, you tend to get what you pay
for). Of course at the time, the Nokia was going for 1000, and the ViewSonic
about 700 (IIRC, in terms of 19" monitors, the Nokia is about $100 more than
the ViewSonic).
> I've read a number of reviews on the web regarding each of these, and
> they all seem to have strong poin
