Linux-Hardware Digest #49
Linux-Hardware Digest #49, Volume #10Sat, 17 Apr 99 02:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster only works for WAVs? not Mp3 or MIDI? (David Ripton)
Re: Ideal Linux Box? (WORLOK)
Re: Dual Processing with Celeron Processors (BL)
Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard (David Ripton)
RE: Minimum Hardware For Ghostscript on Linux ("Donald R. Brewer")
Re: ESS1869 Soundcard (David Ripton)
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Re: Winmodems And Linux. (Bob Martin)
Re: Hang up with Adaptec 2940U2W ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Graphics card compatibility??? (jedi)
Re: Ideal Linux Box? (HAC)
only 2 of my joystick buttons work (*MoNsTeR*)
Re: easy-to-configure soundcard (Peter Pawlowski)
non-edo memory where, how much? (oak)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Gianni Mariani)
Re: How to install cheapest X Terminal for every room?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LS-120 drive and Linux (Eric Hesselberg)
Re: Redhat driver for linksys ethernet cards. ("Eric Paulson")
Pacific CommWare board / 16750 ? ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Which scsi controller? (Eric Hesselberg)
Re: non-edo memory where, how much? ("James Kosin")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster only works for WAVs? not Mp3 or MIDI?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:49:36 GMT
In article <7er1no$52a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, I just installed a Sound Blaster 16 card. It works only to play WAV
>sound files. It wont play CD's(probably beucase I didnt connect the cd-rom to
>the card : ). Is there a way around this? Becuase the wire doesnt fit, so i
>can't conenct it). When I try to play an MP3 or a MIDI, the sound card stops
>working. I have to reboot to get it to work again. Why would this be?
I've seen CD audio cables that have three different connectors on the
sound card end, to cover all the bases. Find one.
You probably have the MIDI address set wrong. If it's at 0x330, try
0x300, or vice-versa. If you have a proper SB16 with jumpers, setting
things up the way you want is easy. If you have a PnP version, it's
a pain, but look for a midi line in your /etc/conf.modules (You've
got wav files playing, so you're past the hard part.)
Try another MP3 player. (X11amp works well with my SB16, while the
other one I tried didn't work at all.) If that's not it, then possibly
you have the 8-bit DMA address set right and the 16-bit DMA address set
wrong or something.
Good luck.
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:52:58 GMT
RH 5.2/ kernel 2.2.5
KDE 1.1 / WindowMaker 0.21
Celeron 300a OC 450mhz
128 MB PC100
6.4gb Maxtor UDMA
Zoom 56k isa modem
Adaptec AHA 1542CP ISA
Acer 40X UDMA CDROM
HP Surestore IDE CDRW
Hercules Stingray 128/3D Voodoo PCI graphics
Creative AWE32 ISA sound
17" MAG DX17f
UMAX Astra 1200s SCSi scanner (SANE)
WangDAT 8gb 4mm DDS2 SCSI ext Tape
SCSi ZIP drive
ext Conner 2GB SCSI hdd
Logitech 3 button Marble trackball
Works pretty good for my home system. I added the scsi tape recently. What a
Godsend!
Your choices seem fine. Linux flies on new hardware.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig M Lambert) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to build myself a new Linux box and wanted some feedback
> about the hardware I have selected for it. (I am going to use Caldera
> 1.3 in it).
>
> Motherboard: Asus P5A (rev 1.0.4) [Dabs Direct] socket 7/
> Asus P5S-vm (as long as AMD K7 can be
> supported)
>
> CPU: AMD K6-3/K7 (when it comes out) 450-500mhz
>
> Ram: 128mb SDRAM PC100
>
> Hard drive: large UDMA > 10gb (not sure what make)
>
> Graphics card:AGP possibly ATI xpert 98/99 or ATI Xpert @
> work 8/12mb (must be compatible with Linux)
>
> CDROM:>=40x IDE (possibly Panasonic/Creative - compatible
> with Linux)
>
> Floppy disk: Generic
>
> Mouse:3 button Microsoft - serial port
>
> Keyboard: win 95 (104)
>
> Box: ATX power supply, with 2, 5.25" drive
> bays and 2, 3.5" bays
>
> Printer: Epson colour 640
>
> Soundcard:Creative labs PCI (16bit)
>
> Tv card: Hauppage/ati compat.-(connects with graphics
> card)
>
> The other hardware such as the monitor and modem, I already have.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Craig
>
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Linux-Hardware Digest #48
Linux-Hardware Digest #48, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 23:14:00 EDT
Contents:
Ideal Linux Box? (Craig M Lambert)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Andreas Spengler)
Re: HELLL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
winbook laptops (Christian Reilly)
BUYING A MODEM ("Tuomo O. Vuolteenaho")
Re: Most effective SCSI setup for Linux (David Ripton)
Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!! (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Network cards info please (Peter Pawlowski)
Please help! Kernel panic! ("John Dixon")
Re: Graphics card compatibility??? (Scott Stone)
Re: Creative Labs' Riva TNT (Scott Stone)
Hardware-controller (Peter Pawlowski)
Pansonic KX-P152 printer problemsout of paper? (Prothonotar)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Robbt
Erisbright")
Re: Dual Processing with Celeron Processors (WORLOK)
Re: eth0 not found by ping etc ("Gene Heskett")
Re: laptops and linux (David Ripton)
How to install cheapest X Terminal for every room?? (Raphael)
Help on Redhat Starbuck with Sound Blaster PCI 128? (Harry Fu)
Re: AMD K6 Slackwera Installation (OldUncleMe)
Re: Winmodems And Linux. ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: Monitor Specs (Dieter Stumpner)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig M Lambert)
Subject: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:04:51 GMT
Hi,
I'm about to build myself a new Linux box and wanted some feedback
about the hardware I have selected for it. (I am going to use Caldera
1.3 in it).
Motherboard:Asus P5A (rev 1.0.4) [Dabs Direct] socket 7/
Asus P5S-vm (as long as AMD K7 can be
supported)
CPU:AMD K6-3/K7 (when it comes out) 450-500mhz
Ram:128mb SDRAM PC100
Hard drive: large UDMA > 10gb (not sure what make)
Graphics card: AGP possibly ATI xpert 98/99 or ATI Xpert @
work 8/12mb (must be compatible with Linux)
CDROM: >=40x IDE (possibly Panasonic/Creative - compatible
with Linux)
Floppy disk:Generic
Mouse: 3 button Microsoft - serial port
Keyboard: win 95 (104)
Box: ATX power supply, with 2, 5.25" drive
bays and 2, 3.5" bays
Printer:Epson colour 640
Soundcard: Creative labs PCI (16bit)
Tv card:Hauppage/ati compat.-(connects with graphics
card)
The other hardware such as the monitor and modem, I already have.
Thanks for any help
Craig
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:51:57 +0200
From: Andreas Spengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Hi Jeremy,
Jeremy Shinall wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2 on my system running at 374MHz (Celeron
> 300A overclocked using 4.5 x 83MHz). I have an ATI Rage Fury AGP video
> running the Rage 128GL chipset with 32 MB RAM. RH installed just fine,
> but when I type 'startx' the screen blinks then returns an error that no
> screens were found. I've tried just about EVERY setting in Xconfigurator
> for the type of card, chipset, and whether to probe or not. Nothing
> helps. Any ideas?
>
Bad luck.
this Chipset isn´t supported under X yet. ATI is no friend of Linux ;-(
Greetings,
Andreas Spengler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: HELLL
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:28:55 GMT
Hi from a fellow newbie.
Sounds to me like when you used FDISk you forgot to format the Jaz
disk as ext2 , as needed by Linux.
Probably the Jaz disk is pre formatted as Windoze compatible Fat32, on
which Linux can't be installed.
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:01:48 +1000, "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Help.. I can't install redhat 5.2
>the problem is, after I choose fdiskthen I get to choose between hard
>disk and jaz drive (where I want to install)
>
>the problem:
>
>after entering "/jaz" as mounting thing (???), the when I press OK,
>it says "need to have root (/) directory in linux native format ext2 to
>continue installation" or something like that.
>
>I haven't got a clue on what this meant.
>If anybody sucessfully installed red hat on jaz disk, (also for bootable
>disk), or knows how to do it, PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO.
>
>thank's
>
>
>
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From: Shymon Shlafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics card compatibility???
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:22:50 +0200
Hello, Linux people!!!
I'm going to buy for my Pentium-166MMX the following graphic card:
ATI Xpert98 PCI (8MB,RagePro).
Pl
Linux-Hardware Digest #47
Linux-Hardware Digest #47, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 20:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: Matrox G100 w/4mb memory ("Thomas Eg Jørgensen")
CDRW - HP and Backpack ("Christopher Fowler")
PLEASE HELP ("Phil Jirsa")
Re: Need hardware for homebuilt vision system. Pointers?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yamaha DS-XG Sound (Intel SE440-BX2 Onboard) ("goldFISH")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Johan
Kullstam)
MPU401 lockup problems (Scott Stone)
Re: A New 'puter Board for Me (Adam Rheaume)
Winmodems And Linux. ("KrOnZ")
Re: NE2000 Ethernet Card (Duane Stiffarm)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Monitor Specs (Scott Stone)
Re: PnP ISA CMI8330 Sound Card in Linux ("Don Morrison")
Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i Sp Compatible? ("Barbara A. Severance")
RE: Download file like NetVampire or Getright ??? (Dr H. T. Leung)
Re: Sound Blaster Live (David Ripton)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
Sound Card Problems ("Jonathan Wiens")
any1 from Canada will sell or burn linux cheaply ? ("Paul Kuzemczak")
Re: linux installation with mitsumi lu005s CDROM (rahjur)
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Re: Creative Labs' Riva TNT (Chris)
Re: EtherPCI PnP disable software... (Keith Low)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
Re: More than one SCSI Controller (Keith Low)
Re: best removable storage... (Peter Kropf)
From: "Thomas Eg Jørgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G100 w/4mb memory
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:31:30 +0200
If you are a totally newbie i recommend you to get version 5.9 of
RedHatdon't know where to get it, but in this version your gfx-card is
presented(G100 with 4 or 8mb ram)...This is the easiest way to solved the
problem, if you haven't use linux before
If you have a little more experience i think you should download the newest
version of XFree at www.xfree86.org and install this...
I had the same problem af you, but thanks to some nice people at this
newsgroup, my problem was solved.like i hope your is soon...
Best Regards
Thomas Eg Jørgensen
Denmark
Telia Test skrev i meddelelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I can't configure this card to work properly under X, all help will be much
>appreciated. I run RH5.2 with no updates/upgrades
>
>
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From: "Christopher Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW - HP and Backpack
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:09:11 -0400
I'm thinking about getting an external CD-ReWritable drive for my system. I
figured what ever my choice in media is, it should be an external device so
I can use it with several system easily.
Here are my questions:
Has anyone had any problems/success with the "BackPack" family? Best price
I've found is $339.
Same Question for the external HPs - best price $329.
Any reason why I should avoid going with this solution?
Also, is it true that some older CD-ROM drives will not be able to READ
CD-RW disks? This is not a (major) issue, but was just wondering.
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or this newsgroup
Thanks!
-Christopher
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ChronoFish.com/Christopher
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From: "Phil Jirsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PLEASE HELP
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:03:49 -0500
I just installed RH 5.2 on a Pentium 400 with 64 MB of RAM. I have a Matrox
Millennium G200. When the X is loading, it finds the card, but then says it
is not supported and defaults to "generic" mode and gives me the squashed
320Xwhatever resolution. Is there any way i can get my card working? Thanks
in advance for any info.
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.ai,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need hardware for homebuilt vision system. Pointers?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:16:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Randy Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to roll my own Linux-based vision system, and I need some sort of
> camera that will integrate with a pentium PC running Linux (or windows,
> if absolutely necessary).
>
> I'm looking for pointers to both hardware (camera and I/O card) as well
> as references of related research or hobbyist experiences.
>
> The application will be viewing a subject that moves frequently (backyard
> birds), identifying them and targeting them (for non-violent purposes :-).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
> Randy Crawford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Joyce Kilmer was thinking about central Illinois.
Randy,
If you havn't found it already you might get some leads from the Computer
Vision Homepage at www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/vision.
Sincerely,
David
Linux-Hardware Digest #46
Linux-Hardware Digest #46, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 17:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: multiple serial port card and terminal (Frank Paprosky)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
Where to buy Symbios SCSI controllers? ("Mark H. Wood")
Re: Adapdec 2940UW on Linux (Johan Kullstam)
Re: problem with scsi adapter aha-1542 during instalation (Mircea)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Jon A.
Maxwell (JAM)")
Matrox G100 w/4mb memory ("Telia Test")
Re: Banshee under X ("Sharjeel H. Shafiq")
ATI Rage Fury (Jeremy Shinall)
ADAPTEC RAID ARO-1130U2 compatible? (Brent Meshier)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Johan
Kullstam)
Re: Non-destructive HD repartition? (John Thompson)
SVGALIB e MATROX MYSTIQUE G200 ("Lorenz")
Monitor Specs ("Jean Void")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Johan
Kullstam)
There was a mouse Where??? There on the. ("DaZ")
Re: Adapdec 2940UW on Linux ("bob")
video & soundcard compatible ? (paul)
Linux and Pentium II M747 motherboard ? (paul)
Re: best removable storage... (Matthias Fricke)
Re: best removable storage... (Matthias Fricke)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
Re: Which hardware is best ? (Johan Kullstam)
From: Frank Paprosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multiple serial port card and terminal
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:49:58 GMT
If you can find an old Digiboard PC/8 it would be perfect.
The Digiboard Serial I/O products is the best choice for Linux.
With the PC/8 card you don't need any driver. Just use the setserial program
to configure each port.
Frank.
In article <7f6ii2$f9r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Aaron Tunnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a bunch of old terminals 2-3 that I want to spread around the house
> to use as email and news group terms. I also have a Plam sync cradle, modem
> and tablet. I can do without the tablet but i need the modem and cradle,
> what multiole serial port cards work with linux, are theire any cheap ones
> out there? Used? An will this work, is it a good solution? Thanks
> --
>
> - Aaron Tunnell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
> - http://aatunnel.campus.vt.edu - Home of the Blue Box -
> - Applied Video Technology, Inc. - Integration Tech -
> Virginia Tech - New Media Communications Major
>Guster- "Honest is easy,fiction is where genius lies"
> --- AOL IM gusterbug --- ICQ # 4397765 -
>
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:36:21 GMT
In article <7f5srk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7f5lr4$dvk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <1ZqR2.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >>When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
> > >>all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
> > >>programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
> > >>however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
> > >>descriptive.
> >
> > But do you actually ever retype that mess from memory? If you[...]
>
> Of course not, and it's not necessary in the first place.
> A "CD" will do just fine (provided you are using a decent shell).
What will "cd" do?
J.
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From: "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to buy Symbios SCSI controllers?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:17:57 GMT
People talk about NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic SCSI controllers, but where do
they buy them? None of my usual suppliers list them.
--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Specializing in unusual perspectives for more than twenty years.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rmit.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Adapdec 2940UW on Linux
Date: 16 Apr 1999 14:08:30 -0400
Timshel Yarrah Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm in the market for a SCSI adapter, but I've noticed that the
> linux kernel doesn't support the Adapdec 2940UW (or any of the
> 2940's, for that matter).
sure it does. it's called aha-7xxx, aic-7xxx or somesuch after the
chipset. i have
Linux-Hardware Digest #45
Linux-Hardware Digest #45, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 14:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: eth0 not found by ping etc (Robin Jackson)
Re: Tape Backup for Linux (Tomasz Korycki)
HP 695C printer (KN)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Craig Kelley)
small (but cheap) PC (i386) for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Craig Kelley)
Re: S3 Virge DX (Wolfgang Trappe)
Re: "Network unreachable" - Help! ("Rupert Hair")
Re: Adapdec 2940UW on Linux (Stephen Bradly)
More than one SCSI Controller (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rk?= Dreier)
small (but cheap) PC (i386) for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Creative RIVA TNT 16Mb (Phil DeBecker)
EtherPCI PnP disable software... (Goran Devic)
Confusion with FDISK on 20G Drive (Eddie Atherton)
Banshee under X (franco)
Re: 96meg EDO on a TX motherboard? (steve blakeway)
Re: HP 695C printer ("Sharjeel H. Shafiq")
Hard disk error? (Claus Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6rtner?=)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Re: eth0 not found by ping etc
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:00:38 +0100
>However, any pings that would have to go thru the card to get to the
>rest of our network apparently go into a black hole, no matching led
>activity on the back of the card. I can't ping its assigned address
>from any other machine on the network either, altho in that case, I do
>see the red led dancing at 1 per second intervals.
>
>Its kind of a stripped install, about 280 megs of a 329 meg drive, but
>I'd think that if a vital piece of the networking wasn't there,
>something would surely squawk.
>
>Pinging its own assigned address quad works, as does the localhost
>address.
I you get any answers by email can you let me know please as I have a
similar problem (although I cannot ping my own address which is strange).
Robin
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Tape Backup for Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:57:02 -0400
Rich Looke wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am getting ready to put together a new computer that I will run Linux
> on. I'm trying to figure out what strategy to use for making Tape
> Backups of the file systems on it.
>
I use IBM's ADSM. to *great* advantage. Especially Hierarchical Storage
and Disaster Recovery. It uses clients for other machines, wich can be
client poll or server command. Check it out (before You get it).
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From: KN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 695C printer
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:38:45 +0200
I can't use my Hewlett Packard 695C printer under Linux.
Why ? Can someone help me ?
- Karim Naamani -
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:20:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello) wrote:
> In article <7f4u4o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Weber wrote:
> > Here's a programming tip I learned a long time ago that is just as
> > applicable here: never type any variable/file name twice. Keep a
> > window open with your varialble declarations and cut and paste them in.
> > I do the same thing for file names that are longer than about 3
> > characters. If I had all the time back that I spent re-typing commands
> > b/c I mis-spelled the stupid name and the time spent re-compiling b/c I
> > can't speel printf, I'd write my own damn case-insensitive OS.
>That's a bad tip.
>Wait until you find a system without a mouse, just a console.
> A router or small web server would probably not have a mouse!
> Perhaps you should learn to spell and type - these are generally
> a plus for people who plan on hiring you.
I have always used cut and paste whereever possible, even when I was
programming on paper tape. I always type both parentheses (or begin..end's)
before inserting the code. I always use editor macro's to insert blocks of
repetitive code. I don't do this primarily as a timesaver, but as a means of
ensuring accuracy. I gear my methods to the kind of machine I am likely to be
working on, rather than the worst situation that could possibly arise. I
can't imagine trying to make myself less dependent on the mouse just in case
I have to dig out a typewriter one day.
Modern programming environments tend to be much more helpful and configurable
than the old editors.
This is an area where everyone has very individual preferences (see the vi vs.
emacs wars.)
J.
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Linux-Hardware Digest #44
Linux-Hardware Digest #44, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 11:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Chris
Costello)
Re: Linux supported printers (Grant Taylor)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Chris
Costello)
Re: PCL6 Laser Printer (Grant Taylor)
Re: S3 Virge DX (Wolfgang Trappe)
Re: Seagate ST9235AG: Linux can't read the boot block! ("Martin Doehring")
Re: adaptec 2940uw problem (Mike Lewis)
Re: NE2000 compatible card - how to setup? (Scott Alfter)
Scanner suggestions (Dominic-Luc Webb molmed)
Trenton Pentium II w/ Digital 21143 ethernet controller ("Tim Hall")
Re: Problems with ATI All-in-Wonder video card config using xf86config, startx
("DFarmer")
Re: STB Desktop TV PCI Card. ("Chun Lin")
SOLVED - THANKS::Re: 2 Ethernet Cards - IRQ/Address Conflict? Help! ("Simon Morley")
Creative Labs' Riva TNT ("John Folk")
Re: best removable storage... (Matthias Fricke)
Dual Processing with Celeron Processors (Dwayne McGarty)
Re: Modems (Andrew Comech)
Re: Trenton Pentium II w/ Digital 21143 ethernet controller (Greg Yantz)
Printer daemon error (Yazid)
A New 'puter Board for Me (Rich Looke)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:07:22 GMT
In article <7f4u4o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Weber wrote:
> Here's a programming tip I learned a long time ago that is just as
> applicable here: never type any variable/file name twice. Keep a
> window open with your varialble declarations and cut and paste them in.
> I do the same thing for file names that are longer than about 3
> characters. If I had all the time back that I spent re-typing commands
> b/c I mis-spelled the stupid name and the time spent re-compiling b/c I
> can't speel printf, I'd write my own damn case-insensitive OS.
That's a bad tip.
Wait until you find a system without a mouse, just a console.
A router or small web server would probably not have a mouse!
Perhaps you should learn to spell and type - these are generally
a plus for people who plan on hiring you.
-Chris
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux supported printers
Date: 15 Apr 1999 23:49:26 -0400
"Donald R. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the minimal processor and memory requirements to run
> ghostscript on Linux OS?
A 386SX-16 with 4M and a 20M disk will run Linux and Ghostscript.
A midrange 486 or better is probably preferred, though, as is 16M RAM;
any Pentium will be more than ample.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picantecom - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:08:50 GMT
In article <7f73r5$fo2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, westprog wrote:
> > Of course not, and it's not necessary in the first place.
> > A "CD" will do just fine (provided you are using a decent shell).
>
> What will "cd" do?
Some shells do filename completion with the tab key.
(foo@bar) ~/docs-> CD[press tab here]
suddenly you see
(foo@bar) ~/docs-> CD Report ...
>
> J.
>
> ---== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==--
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCL6 Laser Printer
Date: 15 Apr 1999 23:28:39 -0400
Xaendiss <" Xaendiss"@hotmail.com> writes:
> I've just bought an Mita DP-570 Laser printer which is PCL6
> compliant. It works fine with the HP4L printer driver (apsfilter),
> but the speed (if I can call it speed) is horribly slow. It takes
> about 2 minutes per page.
> I'm using SuSE Linux 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5 Parallel ZIP Drive Mita DP-570
You don't say what version of Ghostscript you have. A few people have
reported that the more recent versions - 5.10 and 5.50 - work faster
for their PCL lasers. Try the SuSE 5.50 update or Aladdin's rpm.
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Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picantecom - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Wolfgang Trappe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Virge DX
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:16:06 +00
Linux-Hardware Digest #43
Linux-Hardware Digest #43, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 09:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: Travan TR4 / Seagate Hornet Tape Dirve (Gary Momarison)
sane and snapscan310 (Ralph Schleifer)
Re: hard disk stops (Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB)
Re: Sound Blaster 16 problems. (Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB)
Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 ("G de Keating-Hart")
STB Desktop TV PCI Card. (S Sachdeva)
SUN SparcStation 10 with cg12 video frambuffer (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B1=E8=BA=B4=C7=F6?=)
STB Desktop TV PCI Card. (S Sachdeva)
Trouble in HP SCSI Host Adapter AHA-2740. HELP. ("Vasyliy_Makarov")
Re: Non-destructive HD repartition? (John McKown)
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPci64 (Patrick Mcginley)
Which hardware is best ? ("CM")
problem with scsi adapter aha-1542 during instalation ("yaniv&yael")
Why was I so lucky ... (gus)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Matthias
Warkus)
Re: pentium motherboards with onboard ethernet? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: Download file like NetVampire or Getright ??? (Vincent)
Re: SUN SparcStation 10 with cg12 video frambuffer ("M.C. van den Bovenkamp")
Re: A New 'puter Board for Me (Jeff McWilliams)
LS-120 drive and Linux ("Vaughan Hider")
Re: Trouble in HP SCSI Host Adapter AHA-2740. HELP. ("Vasyliy_Makarov")
Re: Linux and External Print Servers (Grant Taylor)
Re: STB Desktop TV PCI Card. ("G de Keating-Hart")
Re: USB ZIP-drive on linux? ("Alex Johnson")
HELLL ("john")
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Travan TR4 / Seagate Hornet Tape Dirve
Date: 15 Apr 1999 17:52:34 -0700
"Kenneth H. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Graham wrote:
> > You should be able to use make backups with something like:
> >
> > tar cvf /dev/ht0 {filenames}
> >
> > It was that simple for me, at least.
>
> Do you know if it's possible to store multiple files on the
> same tape? I want to use 'dump', and I expected that I could
> do something like this:
>
> dump 0uf /dev/nht0 /
> dump 0uf /dev/nht0 /usr
>
> And that appears to work, but then my attempts to use 'mt'
> to move the tape to the start of the 2nd backup fail.
> I tried:
>
> mt -f /dev/nht0 rewind
> mt -f /dev/nht0 fsf 1
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Tip: Make a link from /dev/tape to /dev/nht0 and loose the
"-f /dev/nht0".
I don't know "dump", but the "mt" stuff looks OK. Maybe try
"fsf 2" or "eof".
I find "afio" does a good job, allowing your multiple usage and
compressed archives.
I use something like
find . -xdef | afio -ozZv -b 32k -c 64 -L /var/log/afio tape_host:/dev/nst0
Play with -b & -c for best speed.
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Ralph Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sane and snapscan310
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:36:28 +0200
Hello all,
I've got a problem accessing my AGFA SnapScan 310 scanner attatched
to a ASUS SC200 SCSI card although the find-scanner command says
find-scanner: found scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.10" at device /dev/scanner
find-scanner: found scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.10" at device /dev/sg0
The scanimage --help command says
:
:
:
List of available devices:
pnm:0 pnm:1
cat /proc/scsi/scsi says:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: AGFA Model: SNAPSCAN 310 Rev: 1.10
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Does anybody have an idea what the problem is?
Thank you
Ralph
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From: Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk stops
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:41:13 +0200
David Murray wrote:
> sounds like either:
>
> 1) hardware failure
> 2) BIOS power management
>
> > hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd2 { Busy }
> > hda: DMA disabled
> > hdb: DMA disabled
But if it was a software failure, it should also happen under window$,
but it doesn't!
Any other idea?
--
From: Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 problems.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:45:33 +0200
Greg McGee wrote:
> Ôñéáíôáöýëëïõ ÓôÝñãéïò wrote:
> >
> > I have Redhat Linux 5.2 and the Creative sound blaster 16 Value. The problem
> > is that i can't install my sound card with sndconfig (when it is ready to
> > play the sample it appears an error message).How can I solve this problem.
> Make sure you have no other cards conflicting.
> I had to "move" the IRQs and such on my scsi card...
> The SB wants "its" defaults.
Are you using a Soundblaster Vibrax? If so, read the file VIBRAX in the directory
Documentation/ in you linux sources directory.
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Linux-Hardware Digest #42
Linux-Hardware Digest #42, Volume #10Fri, 16 Apr 99 06:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: CAN I RUN LINUX AND WHICH IS BEST (Ed Wilts)
Re: an easy hardware question (jason)
Re: OPTi 931 soundcard: it's alive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Jürgen
Exner")
Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ?? ("4Season")
Non-destructive HD repartition? ("4Season")
Re: Creative RIVA TNT 16Mb ("M.C. van den Bovenkamp")
ATA-66 Driver (Jim Battin)
Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 (Eric Bohn)
Adapdec 2940UW on Linux (Timshel Yarrah Knoll)
Re: ELKS-- Does anybody have any experience with it? Can the people who do supply
ideas? (Gary Momarison)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Jürgen
Exner")
X Windows problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Thomas Keats)
Re: I/O error on SCSI disk ("Carl R. Friend")
Re: Where do I find a Linux driver? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Problems with ATI All-in-Wonder video card config using xf86config, startx
("DFarmer")
Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP (Skip Egdorf)
The Fastest way to prepare for a successful IT career!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
Re: Jaz Drive support? (Jarl Friis)
STB Desktop TV PCI Card. (S Sachdeva)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
Re: AVer TV 98 or ASKEY TView 99 under Linux (jedi)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CAN I RUN LINUX AND WHICH IS BEST
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:34:14 -0500
Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
>
> > The machines main purpose is Word processing, net surfing, CAD and image
> > manipulation, and creating music using software such as cubase, cakewalk
> > etc. What software is avaliable for linux for such tasks and where do i
> > obtain it.
>
> We should really try and convince Steinberg to make a Linux version of
> Cubase. That would be COOL.
There is a project underway called Koobase that is aimed to be similar
to Cubase. It isn't there yet, but at least parts of it are working.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: an easy hardware question
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:27:55 -0400
Brian Langenberger wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where I could find Linux plates to replace those on an
> IBM ThinkPad? You know, those little metal things that say "IBM ThinkPad"
> on them? A 1"x1" plate/sticker should suffice. Then the whole world can
> know in advance not to ask "you're running Windows, right?"
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
Have you looked at http://scotgold.chillin.org ? They have some nice stickers...
just got mine today. :-)
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OPTi 931 soundcard: it's alive?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:45:01 GMT
Oscar Kind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've a OPTi931 soundcard SB Pro compatible. I've recompiled my Kernel
>> (it's 2.0.34) for this card
I could configure a card like that on a 2.2.x kernel, even with FULL DUPLEX.
Check the Documentation of the new kernel's...
If you want, i can send you my isapnp.conf and conf.modules, but for that
send me an email ( slug (at) alumni.dee.uc.pt ) so i can remember
Bye
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From: "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:32:11 -0700
Reply-To: "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7f5lr4$dvk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <1ZqR2.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
> >>all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
> >>programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
> >>however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
> >>descriptive.
>
> But do you actually ever retype that mess from memory? If you[...]
Of course not, and it's not necessary in the first place.
A "CD" will do just fine (provided you are using a decent shell).
jue
--
Jürgen Exner
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From: "4Season" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ??
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:27:20 -0600
Odd, I have the Ensoniq AudioPCI, which, under Windows98, uses Soundblaster
64 PCI software without a hitch. Red Hat Linux 5.2 supports it just fine. So
far, most of the installation problems I've
