Linux-Hardware Digest #244, Volume #10 Sat, 15 May 99 22:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
OPTi /dev/dsp problem (Ignacio E Thayer)
Re: Another problem ("Travis Landry")
Compiling new 2.2.9 kernel error ("Gene Heskett")
Device busy for aimslab radio on linux 2.2 (Michael Bain)
Re: CD-AUDIO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ASUS-P2B-DS feels slow (Andrew Daviel)
Quad/Dual Motherboard? (Gavin McCord)
Warning: IOMEGA Zip on linux 2.2 is not stable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: STB 128 and RedHat (Joshua Martin)
Hi-val sountastic sound cards (d Martin)
Re: UDMA33 hard drive runs at 6 megs/second - WTF? (Steve Ponsford)
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, 14 May 1999 12:28:37 GMT
In article <7hek5k$pci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ahhh... isn't that the way that Linux is being put together?
>
> Except not by companies.
...
> :I agree that all OSes are somewhat idiotic. Almost everything is
built by one one
> :vendor sent to the customer as a giant piece of code.
> :
> :I would be nice if an OS could be broken into several major
> :components that
> :follow the specifications. Each component could then be developed by
> :a different
> :company. Finally, all the components could be stitched together to
> :form an OS.
> :This is the way hardware is built. Why not software too?
Here is what I would like to see happen: A small company designs an OS
using an object model. All the components of the system are objects with
fixed interfaces. The OS is given away free. Other companies are free to
replace any objects in the system as they wish, so long as they don't
change the interfaces. If they market their own version of the OS, the
will pay the original company a small licensing fee. They are allowed to
add interfaces to the objects, and to add new objects. A Linux type
culture of open source, free software would be encouraged, but not to
the exclusion of people who want to make money. A standards committee
would adjudicate as to which extensions to the system would become
standard. Making an extension standard would mean that its original
implementation would be given away freely with the system.
I can see a lot of ways in which this picture could go wrong, but if
done right, I think it could work.
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From: Ignacio E Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTi /dev/dsp problem
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:34:48 -0400
I have an opti based cheapo sound card and so far i have used isapnp and
mad16 modules to get it to a point where the card is initialized and i
can play sounds through /dev/audio (by catting .au sounds to it).
however, i cannot get sounds to play through /dev/dsp: they are being
played too slowly (ie, instead of a cat, it sounds liek a cow). you can
reproduce this sound with sox on /dev/audio by changing the bitrate of a
16khz wav to 8000 (sox -r8000). anyway, i've had this problem before,
and successfully got the card working, but it was more than a year ago
and now i cant remember what i did to fix it. if anyone has any ideas,
i'd appreciate hearing them.
thanks,
ignacio
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From: "Travis Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,nl.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installat
Subject: Re: Another problem
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:49:24 -0400
Not if you're using RH 6.0, Its gnorpm there
Tomer Brisker wrote in message ...
>The XFree RPM manager is called glint. To check if you have it installed,
>run "rpm -q glint" from a virtual console. If it is intalled, all you
>have to do is type "glint" on any xterm, or set it up to be in your
>menu/icons by reading the man pages for your window manager. If it is not
>installed, you can get the latest version from
>http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/glint.html
>
>[This followup was posted to alt.linux and a copy was sent to the cited
>author.]
>
>In article <7gcp2q$3i6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Under xwindows the RPM manager was available. I don't know what happened
but
>> it is gone. Can someone tell me how to get it back under Xwindows that is
??
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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