Linux-Hardware Digest #724
Linux-Hardware Digest #724, Volume #14Thu, 3 May 01 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: total newbie please be kind ("Ron Bellomo")
Re: total newbie please be kind
Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid... ("Steve Wolfe")
oki 4w printer ("Sten Ahlberg")
IRQ Sharing with 2.4.3 (Laurent Canet)
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] ("Steve Wolfe")
Buffering problem when writing to hardware ("Makhno")
Re: total newbie please be kind ("Ron Bellomo")
Re: Any recommendations for photo-scanners? (Trevor Hemsley)
Voodoo 3500 TV? (Claudio Dosio)
NEC NR-7500A CD-RW 8/4/32 (Jin Zhao)
Re: es1371 - No Sound (Bob Bucy)
Hottest Video bang for the buck compat w/ Linux? ("Doug Robson")
Re: Mouse problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: need good linux *athlon* (tbird) motherboard.. (Dances With Crows)
Re: oki 4w printer ("Ron Freidel")
Re: oki 4w printer ("Matt Ng")
Re: Voodoo 3500 TV? (Michael)
From: "Ron Bellomo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: total newbie please be kind
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:40:13 -0600
I don't know about USB mouse support. But, did your mouse come with a =
USB to PS/2 adapter cable? If so, try using the mouse in the PS/2 mouse =
port (if your PC has one). Many people are using the Intellimouse with =
no problems.=20
"siu00ew2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message =
news:9cs6eg$dpk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Thought it was about time i learnt a bit about linux. I installed Turbo
linux 5.3 coz I got that on a magazine cover DVD a while back.
Everything seems fine except I can't use my mouse. It's a USB =
intellimouse.
Is this version too old to support usb, do i have to update the kernel =
(?),
can anyone talk me through what I need to do to get it working?
I have a USB keyboard as well but that works OK cos i guess it is =
handeled
through the BIOS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: total newbie please be kind
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 19:43:03 GMT
On Thu, 3 May 2001 13:40:13 -0600, Ron Bellomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't know about USB mouse support. But, did your mouse come with a USB to
>PS/2 adapter cable? If so, try using the mouse in the PS/2 mouse port (if your
>PC has one). Many people are using the Intellimouse with no problems.
Do they really make such a cable? USB and serial protocols are as different as
IDE and SCSI.
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid...
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:31:27 -0600
> John & Steve;
>
> Steve - you called it right the first time (I say sheepishly).
You weren't stupid - just a little hurried and perhaps a little careless.
Nothing I haven't been guilty of a few (thousand) times!
steve
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From: "Sten Ahlberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: oki 4w printer
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 19:51:07 +0200
I tried to post a question on using an OkiPage 4w+ printer, twice.
Both times it didn't even appear in this group.
Is the Oki printer so awful or why does the note disappear?
Does anyone know how to get it working with Linux.
Have Red Hat 6.1, all else works fine and there seems to be even a filter
for Oki4w in the installation but no explanation on how to make it work.
Please, someone.
Sten Ahlberg
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From: Laurent Canet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRQ Sharing with 2.4.3
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 20:59:03 GMT
I have a msi 6321 mainboard with two P3/850 (running in SMP 1.4 mode)
My system is using the same irq for differents periperals; here is my
/proc/interrupts:
[lc@malibu:~]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 30462001 31509959IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 182398 204543IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 13497898 13468999IO-APIC-edge rtc
12:25108082616885IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14: 36637 41016IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 1075 1070 IO-APIC-level sym53c8xx
17: 74267222 74336784 IO-APIC-level eth0
18: 647724 665332 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, via82cxxx
19:77590755544290 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1
NMI: 60911692 60758259
LOC: 61959001 61959000
ERR: 0
IRQ18 is used by ide2 (which controls the system's main disk), ide3 (DATA
disk) and via82cxxx (onboard audio)
I want to know if this is possible to use unused irqs (9,10,11,13,15,20+)
for thoses peripherals.
BTW, i got a lot of NMI/LOC; are they really important ?
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
Linux-Hardware Digest #724
Linux-Hardware Digest #724, Volume #13 Fri, 13 Oct 00 23:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: AGP boards which work with SVGATextMode? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Write errors to ATAPI Zip drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: PCI Video Card - Recommendation Please ("D. Stimits")
asus a7v m/b ("Niklas Krumm")
Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD ("Niklas Krumm")
Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD ("Ben Ransom")
Re: Adding SCSI to existing system ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: lucent linmodem (was: Death knell for Windows) ("Ken")
Re: Optra 40 setup (Rod Smith)
Re: PCI Video Card - Recommendation Please ("Joseph C. Kopec")
Re: SCSI/CD-Writer problems (Jan Kreft)
Will IDE on SB16 work for CDROM? (Roger Ehrlich - CSCP/F1998)
Are erased posts from this newsgroup archived anywhere? (Roger Ehrlich - CSCP/F1998)
Re: Optra 40 setup (Michael Meissner)
Re: PCI Video Card - Recommendation Please (Michael Meissner)
Modems ("rhall_tse")
Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro & Redhat 6.2 - Help (Ben Goble)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: AGP boards which work with SVGATextMode?
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:32:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:09:52 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>However, I don't want to let go of the decent text screens which
>SVGATextMode enables - I _hate_ graphic window systems for text work.
>So: can anybody recommend any modern AGP graphics boards which are
>supported by SVGATextMode?
SVGATextmode has not been maintained for a long time, and doesn't seem
to work very well on modern systems. Put framebuffer support into your
kernel, or boot with "vga=ask" and you can most likely get text modes
from 80x25 to 132x50 with few problems. Only problem is that switching
the video mode is impossible without rebooting, but that's what we have
X for ;-) Besides, having more than one xterm open on the same screen
is often *VERY* useful, and beats Alt-F?ing between consoles in most
cases
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=/I hit a seg fault
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Write errors to ATAPI Zip drive
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:32:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:34:28 GMT, Josh Rovero wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am getting write errors (and scrambled dirs), when I try to save
>> files to a Zip disk under Linux using the MCOPY command.
>> Running: RH Linux 6.0;
>> Iomega ATAPI ZIP drive
>RH 6.0 had a problem with the max_kb_per_request
>setting being too large. Should be 32 for reliability.
>Setting is in /proc/ide/hd[your drive letter]/settings
Kernels before 2.2.7 or so had problems with ZIP drives. Upgrade your
kernel (latest stable version is 2.2.17) as well if yours is older than
that.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=/I hit a seg fault
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:47:41 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI Video Card - Recommendation Please
PC Wizard wrote:
>
> I would like a recommendation for a PCI Video Card. I have an older system
> with no AGP slot. My screen redraws are slow sometimes (24 bit color at
> 1024 by 768 pixels), and I'm pretty sure the card is the bottleneck (w2k
> only reads it as 4 mb). A new motherboard, cpu, and more memory would be
> great, but, I can't budget it right now. STB isn't writing new drivers for
> this card either.
>
> I need a new card that has drivers for Windows 98, Windows 2000
> Professional, and Linux. It should also support DirectX and Open GL. I
> looked at the websites for 3dfx, nVidia, and Diamond. This is part of my
> pc:
>
> Tyan S1564D Tomcat IV Dual Motherboard
> Dual Pentium 200 MHz MMX Processors
> 128 MB Simms Memory
> Maxtor (IBM made) 30 GB EIDE Hard Drive
> Sony Multiscan 17se II Monitor
> STB Velocity 3D PCI 8 MB Video Card
>
> What would be a good card to get? How much? From where?
> Thanks
You may find that the cost of a good PCI video card would make it worth
going to a new motherboard. If you are willing to use the Xi Graphics X
server for the 3dlabs Oxygen VX-1, you'd get very good quality OpenGL
everywhere, including SMP suppo
Linux-Hardware Digest #724
Linux-Hardware Digest #724, Volume #12 Fri, 21 Apr 00 19:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems) (Linux Man)
Re: printer problems (Andy Smith)
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (Alexis Bilodeau)
Sound: CS4236 (Benjamin R Haskell)
Problemas de instalacion ("Not Enter")
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: IRQ Assignment (TeraPico ExaAtto)
Re: IRQ Assignment (TeraPico ExaAtto)
New linux "user" ("Klitsuk")
Advice re Laser Printers Needed ("Dennis J. Tuchler")
Re: New linux "user" (Simon Lemieux)
Super computer (Simon Lemieux)
SCSI ("Swing")
Re: New linux "user" ("John Hart")
linux compat PC case (mopi)
Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use (mopi)
Compaq 7000 series presarios? (Dave Rasmussen)
Re: Newbie motherboard question (The Rack)
Re: Printer, HP DeskJet 930C ("William B. Arnold")
Re: linux compat (micro) PC case (for Amptron 599LMR) (Edward Lee)
Re: Any idea how to make a Lexmark1100 work? (Andreas Koch)
Re: Linux on TI89/92? (Michael Engel)
From: Linux Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:07:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Pastore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I am using slack, kernel version 2.2.14. I have an IBM DeskStar UDMA33
> drive running on an old i430HX board, the Tyan Tomcat IV. Upon bootup
I
> get this error:
>
> Partition check:
> hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> hda1 hda2 hda3
>
> I can enable UDMA transfers using 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' but when I do
a
> 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' I only get a transfer rate of about 5mb/sec.
I've
> been through the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO and tried the things mentioned
in
> the email below, but haven't really come up with any answers.
>
> Would you, or anyone on these newsgruops, have any recommendations?
> Should I update the kernel version? Wait for 2.4? Keep looking for
> updated drivers? Am I just being transfer-rate-greedy? :)
>
>
This is a mini-HowTo to get really high transfer rates :
- backup everything;
- Kick your IDE hard-disk big time;
- go to the nearest computer dealer;
- buy SCSI.
do this and you'll never again bother about transfer rates.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: printer problems
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:29:32 -0500
Go to www.sourceforge.net and look up the HP720. They have
drivers for it. They aren't perfect, but they work.
-
Andy
In article <8dpfjh$h5s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ian"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No need to answer my question as I have just stumbled across the answer
> myself. The problem is that I have a winPrinter, goes well with my
> winModem. My printer is a HP 720. P.S. Bodyswerve Packard B stuff, as
> it's all bobbins.
>
> Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8dpeoi$l0c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I get this when I try to configure my printer :-
>>
>> An error has occurred on usr/lib/rhs-printfilters/printerdb : no such
>> file or directory at usr/lib/libDrakX/printer.pm line 296
>>
>> Can anyone help?Thanks.
>>
>> P.S. I have posted this letter a few times but I can't seem to get a
>> response, I hope someone can help.
>>
>>
>
>
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:37:59 GMT
Michael O'Reilly wrote:
>
> This is not a Linux specific question but I do have a dual boot Win95/RH
> 6.1 system. I would like to add a CD-RW drive, and I'm wondering what
> the pros and cons of IDE vs. SCSI drives are. Is there any significant
> adavantage of one over the other?
>
> As described on a related post, I have just installed a SCSI slide
> scanner on my machine. But it was supplied with a cut down card with no
> internal edge connector. So I will probably have to buy a proper SCSI
> card if I opt for a SCSI disk drive, and want to drive both devices from
> one card.
I think that the main difference is how much money you want to invest in
your Cd burner. IDE drives are a little bit cheaper, and work without
adding an expensive interface card. SCSI is faster and more reliable,
but you'll have to pay
Linux-Hardware Digest #724
Linux-Hardware Digest #724, Volume #10 Sat, 10 Jul 99 13:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: USR Sporster voicie 33.6 internal ? (Pierre Royal)
Re: RH5.1 and AWE 64 (JLKirkham)
Re: Asus P2B and the 366a (Lord Dark)
HELP! AHA-2940 not recognised by LinuxHi, ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help: AHA-2940 not detected ("Robert Smales")
Re: Cant get Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI to work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-ROM UltraPlex40max ("Mathias Hecker")
Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i Modem ("Steven J. Macko")
Linux BIOS utilities? (SunWuKung)
ACAD for Linux !!! Think again !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mounting probelm extended VFAT 32 (Tuan Nguyen)
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? ("Hans Zangger")
Re: Do laptops work well with Linux? (Anonymous)
Red Hat 6.0 drivers for Diamond Monster Sound MX300?? (Devon Taylor)
Re: Help: AHA-2940 not detected (John Winters)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (William Burrow)
Re: Viper 770 (Tuan Nguyen)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre Royal)
Subject: Re: USR Sporster voicie 33.6 internal ?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:52:42 GMT
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:20:49 +0200, "such " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>I'm trying to install my 33,6 baud internal modem under linux and it doesn't
>work
>It's not a winmodem , it's a sporster voice 33,6 internal
>HELP PLEASE
>how can I make it work ???
>thank you
>
>
Have you set your BIOS for non PnP OS ?
Pierre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JLKirkham)
Subject: Re: RH5.1 and AWE 64
Date: 10 Jul 1999 13:58:31 GMT
>I'm using an AWE 64. Soundconf detects it, then allows me to set the i/o irq
and dma settings.
You know, I've had the same trouble. So much, in fact, that I booted into
win98 to see how it configured the card, and it didn't find the AWE 64,
wouldn't let me use the AWE 64 driver, and kept insisting on a SB16 driver. I
wonder if it's a card problem?
Jana
Wherever you go, there you are.
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From: Lord Dark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Asus P2B and the 366a
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:23:27 -0400
PPGA Celerons running in a Slot 1 board have been shown to be less
overclockable than if you ran in a Socket 370 board. It is unknown at
this point exactly what about the adapter boards (SlotKet, MSI, etc.) is
causing this, but you might want to check out BXBOARDS.COM for some
articles on the subject.
Pushing a 366 to 550 is extremely hit-or-miss (usually a miss), and the
P2B is about the LEAST likely board you will be able to do this with
unless you tape the pins to kick the voltage up a little. Good luck,
though.
Lord Dark
Jae Il "Joker" Ko wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> it's me joker again with another question for all you overclocking GODS!
> Well, as you can guess i too own the world reknowned P2B. Yes, we love it
> despite it's lack of a softmenu BIOS and inclusion of "mini-me" sized
> jumpers not too mention the awkward placement of the power connector. But
> you can't dispute it's quality, stability or product recognition. anyway,
> along those lines, i was wondering how many of you are P2B owners and
> 366a ->> 550 overclockers? how's the success rate with the MSI slotkets and
> are the rumours true of the alpha heatsinks not fitting the 1.1 version.
> I'm eagerly awaiting my slotket and 336a but in the meantime am pondering if
> i should just splurge on the Abit BP6. I'm also building a computer for my
> little cuz. i've got all these spare parts lying around, i guess it's best
> to make some use of them. The only thing that i don't have two's of are
> motherboards. Could be a good chance to get the BP6 but if not then all is
> still not lost. Thanks again and good luck to all.
>
> --
> -Jae Il "Joker" Ko
> .
> .
> .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP! AHA-2940 not recognised by LinuxHi,
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:43:58 GMT
Hi,
Having problems getting my Adaptec AHA-2940 (Ultra Wide, I think) card
to work under Red Hat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.36).
On machine 'A':
Bios message ok
External SCSI drive found ok
Non-conflicting IRQ assigned ok
Works under Win95, works under Linux 5.1 (2.0.36)
Can mount the drive, read, write, etc. etc.
On machine 'B', however:
Bi
Linux-Hardware Digest #724
Linux-Hardware Digest #724, Volume #9Fri, 19 Mar 99 08:15:31 EST
Contents:
Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Intel no one)
Re: Where do I buy supported hardware systems? (Tank)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Bill Anderson)
Re: CD musicHELP! (Daniel Bowkley)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Henning Strandin)
Adaptec Ethernet Cards (Nate Bennett)
Re: How do I install my ZIP drive with Linux RedHat 5.2 (Patrick Finnegan
"@hotmail.com>)
Re: PPro 200 w/ 256K vs. Celeron 333A (BL)
3com US Robotics: I can't make a decision! ("omega")
Re: Thinkpad 760 and Linux (Greg Paswindar)
Re: optra e+ ("T. Tjioe")
D-Link DFE-530TX Anybody? ("Minh Doan")
Re: "Select the application, and then the platform" (westprog)
Re: Intel740 video display card (me)
Re: $2500.00 DREAM machine ("Lee Sharp")
Re: AMD k6 2 350 (Jeff McWilliams)
SCSI LVD drives and Linux (=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Gachelin)
Re: Can't print after Kernel upgrade (Ryan Ho)
SCSI DAT-drive Problem (Chris Walton)
video tools of X11 application. (william)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Intel no one)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:46:11 GMT
Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
turned on and off by software. Following some links I found the
www.fightdivx.com website and noticed that they have a Intel Boycott
page with links, quotes and info on why you should boycott the
invasion of privacy Pentium III chips. Just like everyone suspected,
the ID number can be taken without a customers knowledge. Just like
cellular phone fraud, once someone has your unique ID number, they
could pose as you on the internet. Do not be fooled by reports that
this problem is fixed because Intel disabled this feature by software
on their up coming chips. Information is power. They want to know
your surfing and buying habits. That is what this is all about. Here
is the link to the page with the boycott info and links.
http://www.fightdivx.com/intelboycott.htm
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Also you will find a Boycott Intel screen saver and banner on their
page above. Spread it around.
Take the Pentium III Boycott Survey
http://mail.infotrieve.com/isurvey/index.cfm?vendorid=6045&formid=F0006045
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From: Tank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Where do I buy supported hardware systems?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:12:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Stephen S. Kerr) writes:
>Ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Maybe
>: www.varesearch.com
>: there are some hardware links at www.linux.org that may be helpful as
>: well, lastly I saw an ad for Penguin something but can't remember the
>: exact name :(
>
>Penguin Computing perhaps? Their site is www.penguincomputing.com. You
>may also want to take a look at Linux Hardware Solutions (www.linux-hw.com)
>and ASL Workstations (www.aslab.com). No doubt there are many others.
>The ads in a recent Linux Journal could be another source for names.
The machines from VA Research (http://www.varesearch.com) are also excellent.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Big Bad Wolf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:09:33 GMT
Jeff Szarka wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:58:37 +, Bill Anderson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> :
> :hat compiling?
> :one word:
> :RPM
> :
> :Thank you, good night.
>
> On a fresh redhat 5.2 install doing rpm installs resulted in many
> broken dependencies. It's just as annoying as the windows DLL mess.
The you had a bad install, or were trying to install things that
required stuff you simply don't have.
I install on average, 4 Linux boxes a week (m-f), all with redhat. Never
have I encountered problem you describe.
If you install something woth a tarball, and it requires something you
_simply_don't_have_ it will not function.
A dependency means somehting needs or is needed by a particular thing.
if you are trying to remove a package, and somehting else requires it,
when would you like to know, before or after you remove the required
item?
IN MSland, when you delete a dll, and somehting requires it, what is to
stop you? if it is in use,
